Surveillance

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Surveillance
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Surveillance

• A small town in rural Australia in April 2001
  became the venue for the country's first DNA
  testing of an entire male population. Police took
  mouth swabs from and interrogated about 600 men
  in Wee Waa, after the rape of a 93 year old
  woman. 
• Retinal scans? See http//giant3.com/archive/pres
  ideo/biometrics.html
• School plans to use retinal scans on students
• http//www.theregister.co.uk/2003/01/08/uk_school_
  plans_retinal_scans/

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Surveillance

• Start with privacy.
• Look at the technologies themselves and the
  reasons for surveillance
• Look at some artistic responses to these
  technologies.

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Surveillance

• "Privacy is the interest that individuals have in
  sustaining a 'personal space', free from
  interference by other people and organisations."
  (Roger Clarke)
• privacy of the person
• privacy of personal behaviour
• privacy of personal communications
• privacy of personal data

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Surveillance

• Privacy Protection is a process of finding
  appropriate balances between privacy and multiple
  competing interests.
• 1. the desire to identify people
• 2. the desire to locate and track
• 3. the desire to control and manipulate

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Surveillance

• Identification
• names - or what the person is called by other
  people
• codes - or what the person is called by
  an organisation
• knowledge - or what the person knows
• tokens - or what the person has
• biometrics - or what the person is, does, or
  looks like.

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Surveillance

• Biometric identifiers
• appearance
• social behaviour
• bio-dynamics
• natural physiography
• imposed physical characteristics

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Surveillance

• Viisage Identity Solutions
• http//www.viisage.com/ww/en/pub/home.cfm
• IR Recognition Systems
• http//www.recogsys.com/index.shtml
• New Australian Passports
• http//www.foreignminister.gov.au/releases/2004/fa
  088_04.html
• SmartGate
• http//www.customs.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u4418

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Surveillance

• Objections to Identification technologies
• Fear of misuse
• Sense of powerlessness
• Girl, 11, microchipped by parents

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Surveillance

• Person Locating and Tracking
• Roger Clarkes article -Person-Location and
  Person-Tracking Technologies, Risks and Policy
  Implications
• http//www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/DV/PLT.h
  tml
• Virtual tracking
• Eg Telstra
• Physical tracking
• ATMs
• MOLI
• Person tracking

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Surveillance

• Jeremy Bentham

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Surveillance

• Denis Beaubois
• In the Event of Amnesia the City will Recall
• Surveillance Camera Players
• John Tonkin