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POS 353/453 04/21/2005

• Website.
• http//faculty.roosevelt.edu/erickson/courses/pos3
  53-453/
• Course agenda (overview).
• Outline annotated bibliography assignment due.
• Web project Locate paper to divide up and post.
• Example.
• Updated graduate reading for next week
  (04/28/05).
• Topics/Concepts introduced by readings.
• Surveillance.
• Presentations.
• Video Cases.
• Senate Hearings re Identity Theft.
• No Place to Hide Continued.
• Media Jihad - Webveillance of Extremists.

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Geocities Colonization Experimental Project -
Final Assignment.

• Example(s) of final web project assignment
• Final Web Project Requirement.
• Post web version of final paper between paper due
  date and final exam.
• http//www.geocities.com/cerickson_ru/pos353
• Paper as one file.
• Paper as multiple interlinked files.
• Counter Terror Culture as example.
• Save Word doc as .html file.
• Divide into sections.
• Post sections.
• Link sections to project main page, or separate
  paper page.
• Either is acceptable.

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Surveillance Society Video Cases.

• Surveillance Society Video Cases.
• US Public Opinion.
• CBS Poll April 2002.
• Identity Theft (CNN 04/16/05).
• Current Status.
• Identity Theft Insurance.
• Hearings.
• FinancialPrivacyNow.org.
• CIR Archived ABC video No Place to Hide.
• NORA.
• Border Control.
• Webveillance and Cyber Wars of Terror.
• Clip from Media Jihad (NHK television fall 2004).
• Aaron Weisburd.
• Internet Haganah.

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Surveillance Society

• Surveillance Society.
• Setting the stage.
• Long range trends, US and UK compared.
• Examples.
• City of Chicago Unified Camera Network.
• Open Loop Chicago.
• Surveillance Camera Players.
• MATRIX.
• Stanley and Steinhardt.
• Growing Surveillance Monster.
• Cultural representation of fears of surveillance
  society.
• Minority Report etc.

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Surveillance Society

• Components of the Monster.
• Video surveillance proliferates.
• Dataveillance.
• Private data gathering industry.
• Cell phone location data.
• Genetics and privacy.
• Biometrics.
• Black boxes.
• RFID chips.
• GPS implants.
• Synergies of surveillance.
• Data profiling.

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Surveillance Society

• ACLU recommendations.
• Changing terms of the debate.
• Not inexorable.
• Comprehensive privacy law commission.
• Rapid update of laws to catch up with
  technologies.
• Strengthening and updating 4th amendment.

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Surveillance Society - FBI.

• New Slide3.

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Surveillance Society - Democratic ISA Activity.

• New Slide4.

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Surveillance Society - US Federal Wiretaps.
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Surveillance Society - UK Wiretaps.
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Surveillance Society - US Federal and State
Wiretaps.
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Surveillance Society - US CIA Mail Intercepts.
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Theory of Border Control - Libcki1

• Securing borders.
• Ideally.
• Know who the bad people are before they arrive.
• Detect them crossing border.
• Distinguish, apprehend them.
• Reality.
• Dont detect before entry.
• Large scale surreptitious flows (likely in the
  millions).
• Identity falsification pervasive and easy.

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Theory of Border Control - Libcki2

• Basic tenets of border control.
• Contest between attackers and defender.
• Information, especially distinguishing threats.
• Internal and External wide are surveillance
  (focus on internal).
• Political/Psychopolitical.
• Borders.
• Immune System.
• National borders and terrorism.
• Cyberspace.
• Frontlines.
• Disease surveillance.

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Transformation of Global Surveillance - Landau

• Technologies and Strategies of Surveillance.
• HUMINT.
• SIGINT.
• COMINT.
• Global surveillance.
• Cold war construction of global spanning
  surveillance networks.
• United States.
• National Security Agency.
• National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.
• ECHELON. FAS
• US and allied states.
• EU Report.
• Echelonwatch.
• Statewatch.

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Privacy and Secrecy Post 9/11 - Rotenberg.

• Rotenberg, Marc.
• EPIC.
• Observing Surveillance Project.
• Diminishment of Privacy by legal means.
• CALEA, USA PATRIOT Act.
• Loss of Privacy via technical means.
• National ID Card.
• Face Recognition.
• Border Control.
• Expansion of Government Secrecy.
• Diminished access.
• Closed hearings.
• Consequences of government secrecy.

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Privacy and Secrecy Post 9/11 - Rotenberg.

• Privacy and Power.
• Recognizing and governing information and power
  asymmetries.
• What are we to do?
• Build on existing constitutional traditions.
• Assess new systems of public surveillance.
• Balance of authority to surveil and the
  surveillance of authority.
• Descriptive vs. Normative evaluations of
  surveillance.
• Oppose fatalism regarding loss of privacy.