Everyday Surveillance
Workshop Summaries
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Briggs, Pam
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Churchill, Elizabeth
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Levine, Mark
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Nicholson, James
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Pritchard, Gary W.
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Olivier, Patrick
Extended Abstracts of the ACM CHI'16 Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems
2016-05-07
v.2
p.3566-3573
© Copyright 2016 ACM
Summary: Surveillance, literally the 'close watching over' of a person or a group,
was historically carried out to monitor adversaries and criminals. The digital
era of sensor-rich, connected devices means that new forms of everyday
surveillance -- what some are calling 'dataveillance' -- are emerging. These
are changing the power structures that link people, businesses and governments.
In this multidisciplinary, one day workshop, we seek to rethink and understand
everyday surveillance practices, asking: what are new forms of surveillance
that accompany developments in Big Data and the emerging Internet of Things;
what are the anticipated and unanticipated effects of a surveillance culture;
how does surveillance need to be (re)configured in order to empower the citizen
or contribute to social good? We will ask who "owns" the data that arises from
these everyday acts of surveillance and what can result from rethinking these
ownership models. We will consider the role and place of research in
surveillance data collection and analysis.