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Computers and the Surveillance Society

Computers and the Surveillance Society. Introduction to Computing Catherine Dwyer Dept. of Information Technology Seidenberg School Spring 2014. Computers and Surveillance. “Our chapter … is written in light

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Computers and the Surveillance Society

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  1. Computers and the Surveillance Society Introduction to Computing Catherine DwyerDept. of Information TechnologySeidenberg SchoolSpring 2014

  2. Computers and Surveillance • “Our chapter … is written in light of the fact that computer-enabled data collection, aggregation and mining dramatically change the nature of contemporary surveillance.” Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum, in Privacy, Due Process, and the Computational Turn, 2013

  3. Critical functionalities for surveillance • Data collection • Aggregation • Mining

  4. Role of computing • Software code – allows data collection to be automated • Networks – allows separate data sources to be collected and integrated • Mining – “Big Data” uses advanced algorithms and statistical modeling to extract information from unstructured sources

  5. CIS Components • Material on Blackboard • Introduction to coding (JavaScript) • Data analysis (Excel) • Internet and Web (HTML)

  6. Internet of Things

  7. Facebook app permissions “record audio at any time without your confirmation” “read your contacts” “take pictures and video without your confirmation” “read your text messages (SMS or MMS)” “directly call phone numbers” “read call log” “write (modify) call log”

  8. Friday, January 24 – 2:15 pm

  9. At 2:20 pm At 2:25 pm

  10. 2:30 pm gmail down becomes a meme

  11. And a marketing opportunity

  12. For next class • Read Introduction in JavaScript text

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