Collect it all: national security, Big Data and governance

Crampton, Jeremy W.

doi:10.1007/s10708-014-9598-y

Cited by 59 publications

(35 citation statements)

References 28 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…This approach does not apply in the Chinese context because state-market collaboration benefits the powerful party state, and citizens have no alternative means of expression. And because Internet-opinion work is part of the party state's ambitious project of social civilisation (Yang, 2017), the marketisation of state surveillance cannot be understood as a variation of the Westernised 'security industry' (Crampton, 2015;Hayes, 2012). This difference reveals the diverse ways in which the global surveillance industry is expanding.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The commercialisation of Internet-opinion management: How the market is engaged in state control in China

Hou

2019

New Media & Society

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article examines how market actors are actively engaged in state control of the Internet in China by studying the emerging industry of Internet-opinion management in that country. It presents an ecology of this industry, identifies three main market actors whose competitiveness is deeply rooted in the Chinese political context and identifies three stages of state-market collaboration. This article sheds light on how the rise of big data has strengthened state capacity for Internet control. It provides original evidence for how the profit motive drives Chinese data companies and media organisations to seek active involvement in the institutional construction of Internet-opinion control. This article also contributes to the literature on repression and contentious politics. It demonstrates that by relying on the market, authoritarian states are able to turn advanced technology into a repressive tool, which makes it more difficult for their citizens to use the Internet to mobilise.

show abstract

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The commercialisation of Internet-opinion management: How the market is engaged in state control in China

Hou

2019

New Media & Society

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Third, Big Data may be called a power paradox because although it is a powerful tool that will revolutionize our lives, Big Data sensors, tools and applications are in the hands of powerful institutions rather than ordinary people. Big Data may therefore be exacerbating inequalities and exploitation, rather than ameliorating them [10].…”

Section: Big Data and Big Data Analyticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Big Data Analytics in Biometrics and Healthcare

Wang¹,

Alexander²

2018

JCSA

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Big Data analytics has been used in biometric systems and healthcare. Biometrics is a powerful tool used in healthcare for identification, insurance, and management, etc. There are many computational resources on the cloud, which makes the cloud a strong platform for biometric systems, healthcare systems, and Big Data analytics. Big data, Big Data analytics, and general information security and privacy in big data are presented in this paper. Cloud computing in biometric systems, Big Data analytics in biometrics, and Big Data analytics in healthcare are also presented. The challenges of biometric data on the cloud and the challenges of Big Data analytics in healthcare are discussed.

show abstract

“…In the past decade, this process has been accelerated by the availability of web-based mapping technologies. Secondly, this process has reoriented state capacity towards intensifying the publicly funded collection and production of restricted-access geographic information, much of it towards the swelling surveillance and security apparatus of various states (Crampton, 2014;Crampton et al, 2014;Howard et al, 2011).…”

Section: Level Of Actionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Property regimes and the commodification of geographic information: An examination of Google Street View

León

2016

Big Data & Society

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The body of information on the Internet is becoming increasingly geographical. This is both due to the expansion of established categories of geographic information (e.g., digital maps and geospatial databases) and to the simultaneous enrichment of other types of information through geographic identifiers (e.g., geotags, check-ins, and global positioning system coordinates). As this repository of geographic information expands, it is also a key site for multiple processes of commodification transforming informational resources into market goods. Understanding the dynamics driving the integration of geographic information into the digital economy requires a comprehensive political economic analysis. A key component of this analysis is to explain the logics of creation and allocation of economic value from geographic information on the Internet. Addressing this need, in the present article I deploy the property regimes schema developed by Schlager and Ostrom and expand it to elucidate the differentiated commodification processes of geographic information on the Internet. Property regimes are arrangements that define rules, distribute rights, and delineate roles with respect to particular goods. These arrangements are enabled by elements such as legal frameworks, jurisdictions, type of information, and technologies of access. In this article, I explore how the legal frameworks regulating traditional categories of geographic information (such as maps) have been destabilized in the process of technological innovation, leading to the creation of new informational goods along with their respective property regimes, and rearticulating legal, economic, and sociotechnical relations. To illustrate this, I analyze the case of Google Street View images through their property regimes in various jurisdictions.

show abstract

Collect it all: national security, Big Data and governance

Cited by 59 publications

References 28 publications

The commercialisation of Internet-opinion management: How the market is engaged in state control in China

The commercialisation of Internet-opinion management: How the market is engaged in state control in China

Big Data Analytics in Biometrics and Healthcare

Property regimes and the commodification of geographic information: An examination of Google Street View

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About