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Introduction
In the e-generation the issue „Surveillance Society” plays a big role. In this generation we are accompanied by the electronic. A lot of people are depending on intelligent electronic systems. These systems have the intent to support us in our life.
The abilities and the performances of computers fascinated me and formed my childhood. So I decided to visit a school with the focus on informatics. When started creating Homepages I got an insight of how much information could be saved about the homepage visitor. This was the first time I came in contact with data privacy. At this moment I recognized how much information is saved about one without knowing.
The data storage doesn’t concerns only the web. In the year 2008 England was loud thinking about to share data from students to employers. This data contains personal information about the students and marks. This data will be saved for the whole life.
In addition Austria wanted to adopt a law which is similar to the English one. By now the Austrian students data is saved 60 years.
Electronic data’s can be very easy linked. One good example is the e-card. The e-card is be used to save the medical history of a patient. This data aren’t saved on the e-card. It contains only data about the owner. With other words the e-card represents a key, which gives you the access to databank where the real information’s are stored.
The e-cards allow calculating the receipt charge. So there must deposit the salary. This is what I mean with linked data. The real information’s are stored centered in a database. Who can reassure me that this data are well secure saved?
Stealing electronic data is a new illegal business. Losing data records from databanks are increasing. Shocking is that banks and the government are also concerned.
For a while Austria has tried to legalize online search on private computers without big interests of the media. The state would be authorized to install spyware on every computer.
In the telecommunication sector some things have changed. New technologies allow tapping mobile phones without any information from mobile providers. So the executive doesn’t need a judicial proceeding to get the authorized to tape someone.
In Germany was a case, where a video surveillance helped to identify a person in order to send her a bill.
In China homepage owner will be arrested if the write bad content about the government. This website will also be blocked from the regime. If the site is blocked by the regime nobody is able to access the website.
With the new Handy from Google, you can be localized very easily. This and many other issues about surveillance society are very alarming to me. I’m actually working as a programmer. So I got a good view into what surveillance is possible and what is already reality.
Ethnic concern obtain to controlling and how transparent we are
What are the advantages or risks by controlling the population?
Today the government exculpates the surveillance because of protection arrangements. For example surveillance cameras are placed everywhere, like in the subways, railway stations, public places, and in the traffic. Earlier they placed cameras to deter criminals or to punish traffic offenders. Besides traffic cameras got abused and other public cameras don’t avoid criminal attacks.
For example the mayor of London wanted to get rid of drug dealers. The success didn’t last for long. After a short time they returned and didn’t mind about the cameras.
Another example is the subways of Vienna. They invested millions into electronic surveillance in order to decrease the vandalism. The maintenance costs 575.000 € more than the repair of the damaged trains. In case of a pick pocketing the providers of the subway don’t share the video material. So the video capturing is useless for a normal person. Instead of investing much money into surveillance, it would be more effective to hire educated securities.
Since nine eleven the government increases the surveillance extremely, because of the fear further terrorist attacks. The amount of the cameras exploded in London. Today you will be monitored about 300 times a day when you walk through London. Not for nothing isn’t England called as the pioneer of mass surveillance. Moreover the monitoring of the population is very expensive because of the tremendous number of data which have to be administered. Sometimes the police of London aren’t able to evaluate the video material. Also the clarification of crimes didn’t improve since monitoring.
Nowadays in London are “speaking cameras” installed. For instance a person drops trash on to the ground a man who is viewing the camera speaks through a microphone and commands the person to pick up the trash.
The cameras get more and more intelligent. In a few years video cameras will be able to identify persons and check their actions.
The government tells us we need video surveillance to protect us. We should feel safe in an observed place. In shopping centers the providers got their own surveillance. They inform us that we are monitored. Message like “Attention you will be observed” sounds like a warning. This is the opposite message from the government. The industry uses surveillance techniques to optimize their business or products.
With the mobile phone tracking technique the shop provider is able to say how long a customer stays and which route he takes while visiting the shop. What is a provider allowed to save concerning data privacy? A visitor doesn’t always know how and which data are saved about him.
Internet shops can easily build a customer profile. They know your habits, sex, age, social position and the more you buy more exactly they build a profile about you.
But there is something that knows everything about you. Google, the search engine in the internet, saves your search request 18 months and is able to
Google knows your hobbies, interests, problems, matters, your actual health when you are going to inform about a illness, which products you bought, where you live and where you want to go when you use Google maps, which images you like, emails and documents and so on.
When using the Google handy, Google knows where the mobile phone user is in real-time and which location, shops, restaurants he visits and which of them are his favorites.
Not only are the saved search queries dangerous and alarming also the Google monopoly of information. Everybody uses Google. The concern can hold back search result and so manipulate information’s. This is already the case. The regime of china forced Google to manipulate the search result of China in order to show only positive results. We don’t know if the search results are also in our country manipulated. Google is collection information about us secretly.
Another way to get information about people is, to ask for them. Famous social networks are Facebook, MySpace, StudivZ where users can profile themselves. You are able to communicate, find friends. Important is the general terms and conditions act of these social networks. All of them have say that they are allowed to sell the collected information about the user.
Why is collection information dangerous? It doesn’t hurt anybody aside of the advertisement we get.
As in the introduction mentioned data records can be easily be stolen, lost or manipulated. For example the “e-pass” is in this context very debatable.
The European Union introduces the “e-pass” because it should be forgery-proof. Before the e-pass was introduced there were hardly any fakes. The “e-pass” has microchips. In the internet are Videos available which show a man driving with his car carrying a notebook and some other electronic equipment. He is able to locate all near “e-passes” and to clone them. The owners of the “e-passes” don’t realize that. This danger of cloning a pass didn’t exist in the past. Another problem is the legal viewpoint. Every owner of an “e-pass” is responsible for his passport. But how can the owner announce an abuse of his “e-pass” like the cloning in the video, if he doesn’t know about the abuse.
All in all the society will be more and more observed in the future. But which psychological effect will that have on our society. It is verified that people who know that they are surveillance change their behavior. They act in way to appreciate the observer. They adjust they behavior without recognizing.
Most of the people don’t know the deep dimension of surveillance society. They will only react if it’s too late. 10 years later it will be very difficult to take back the surveillance society. Today the safety engineering doesn’t care who owns it. Surveillance society is a danger to democracy.
Notes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_society, 2 April 2009
http://www.polylog.tv/videothek/videocast/15921/ Calumny 2.0 - 9 April 2009
http://www.polylog.tv/videothek/videocast/642/ Surveillance Society - 9 April 2009
http://www.polylog.tv/videothek/videocast/9087/?tag=Reportage My life as a terrorist - 9 April 2009
http://winfuture.de/news,37495.html Briten wollen Schülerdaten ein Leben lang speichern – 11 April 2009
http://www.bmukk.gv.at/ministerium/rs/200719b.xml Bildungsdokumentation – Vorgangsweise für die Schülerdatenmeldung -11 April 2009
http://www.bildok.at/Portal.Node/pbu/public?ree&gentics.ts=1239456496 Welche Daten werden erhoben? - 11 April 2009
http://vorarlberg.orf.at/stories/169629/ Diskussion um Speichern von Schülerdaten - 11 April 2009
http://www.chipkarte.at/portal/indexid=65659 Daten und Datenschutz - 11 April 2009
http://www.gehaltskasse.at/internet/GHK/Infos.nsf/agentEmergency!OpenAgent&p=CB15CC60AAA2E528C125740F0045A2DE&fsn=fsStartHome&iif=0 Datenschutz - 11 April 2009
http://www.platterwatch.at/IMSI-CATCHER.html IMSI-CATCHER - 11 April 2009
http://www.golem.de/0802/57531.html Hundedreck-Streit: Bank macht Rückzieher - 11 April 2009
http://winfuture.de/news,45837.html Reporter ohne Grenzen: Die 12 Feinde des Internets - 11 April 2009
http://www.die-topnews.de/england-daten-von-millionen-verloren-31222 Daten von Millionen Briten verloren -12 April 2009
http://winfuture.de/news,19217.html Bank of America sucht 1,2 Millionen Kundendaten -12 April 2009
http://www.janvonbroeckel.de/literatur/sf/1984frameset.htm 1984 - 15 April 2009
http://www.arte.tv/de/geschichte-gesewerden-alle-uberwacht_21/1586186.html 22 April 2009 Kontrolle total
http://www.tagesschau.de/inland/mel Auf dem Weg in den Überwachungsstaat?
22 April 2009
http://www.trojaner-info.de/news2/reisepass-rfid-chip-daten.shtml Reisepass geknackt: Britischer Experte hackt RFID-Daten 24 April 2009
http://it-recht.unternehmerweb.at/?p=127 Datenschutzanfrage - Muster Videoüberwachung 24 April 2009
http://www.focus.de/digital/computer/chip-exklusiv/tid-13299/datenschutz-amazon-kennt-sie-besser-als-sie-sich-selbst_aid_367742.html Amazon kennt Sie besser als Sie sich selbst 24 April 2009
http://www.blog.datenwachschutz.de/2008/12/was-weis-google-ueber-mich-dich-alles/ Was weiß Google über Dich / Mich 24 April 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9isKnDiJNPk Cloning passport card RFIDs in bulk for under $250 25 April 2009
http://www.taz.de/1/politik/deutschland/artikel/1/man-passt-sich-an-und-merkt-es-nicht Man passt sich an und merkt es nicht 25 April 2009
http://www.netcasinoportal.net/haupt/inlaendisches-kameras-ethisch.html Unter Verwendung der drahtlosen Überwachungskameras ethisch 25 April 2009
Schlüsselwörter: Surveillance Society, Allgemein, Überwachungsstaat
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