Data collection, counterterrorism and the right to privacy

Taylor, Isaac

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“…Hence, Thompson's approach does achieve to incorporate the variety of understandings of privacy but limits itself with only possible singular interest in privacy. (Taylor, 2017). A control interest acts strong enough to ground an interest in privacy without intersecting with derivative rights, as per Thompson (1975).…”

Section: Iii: Privacy Is a Derivative Rightmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Even further, others having information might also compromise autonomy. After all, being able to make choices independently -free from manipulation of others -is probably the most important precondition of an autonomous life (Taylor, 2017). Knowledge that someone has information will already set back the individual's interests.…”

Section: V: Privacy Is Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Only in a private situation groups or individuals can test out arguments and discover common concerns and work out how to best present these concerns to the society at large. Comprising privacy would therefore also compromise deliberative abilities (Taylor, 2017).…”

Section: Analysis: Polg Nrw and Kplmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This is certainly the most prominent argument to legitimise expanding state surveillance apparatuses post-9/11. Scholars like Himma (2007) or Walzer (2015) argue that even though some violations are in place, the benefits that can be gleamed will outweigh the moral reasons (Taylor, 2017).…”

Section: Objections and Justificationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is of crucial importance to both explore present theories and their shortcomings as well as to settle on a general understanding of privacy that allows me to work out the understanding of privacy employed by the PolG NRW. Scholars like Taylor (2017) have recognised that ''the concept of privacy is difficult to define because it is exasperatingly vague and evanescent, often meaning strikingly different things to different people'' (Taylor, 2017, p. 4). Traditionally, philosophers, jurists, sociologists and scholars of other disciplines have attempted to locate essential elements of privacy common to the aspects of life that we deem private (Solove, 2010).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Marble Research Papers it to several legal texts and news outlets, interferences are drawn to delineate the facets and timeline of the rise of whistleblowers protection on the EU agenda. While Ganapini's and Rick's research is dedicated to the development of EU policies that are directed against the practice of whistleblowing, Jonas Bradtke focusses on controversial counterterrorist policy in Germany. The relationship between privacy and security appears to be one of the grand dichotomies of western thought. How much privacy a citizen is willing-and should be willing-to sacrifice for the sake of privacy has been long debated. Bradtke devotes his attention to the newly introduced Police Law in North-Rhine Westphalia (PolG NRW). He employs a rather unique political science approach in the form of a taxonomy. In a careful manner, Bradtke categorises and evaluates sections of the newly introduced bill in North-Rhine Westphalia. He was concerned to know how privacy is perceived throughout the newly introduced law and whether that definition is at odds with citizens' perception of privacy. His work identifies potentially harmful activities for personal privacy within the PolG NRW and chases back shortcomings to an incomplete understanding of privacy. A directly experienceable form of the broader phenomenon of transparency is physical surveillance. Maximilian Grönegräs examines how architecture can be employed in order to monitor humans and gain control over their behaviour. The author focusses on the architectural example of the prison, which is designed in fundamentally different ways in Germany and the United States (US). With the aim of finding out to what extent German prison architecture can serve as a model for the improvement of prison architecture in the US, the author conducts an international comparison between the two countries. He closely considers the German perspective on prison design by interviewing three architects, who either have been or still are responsible for undertaking structural changes within two different German prisons. Among the main findings of Grönegräs' research is the observation that in both Germany and the US prison architecture is primarily determined by the country's respective dominant political and societal values. While Germany attempts to reduce the architectural surveillance of prisoners and increase their chances of becoming valuable members of society, US prisons deprive inmates of the majority of their former rights as citizens and allow their exploitation as a source of cheap labour. Just like Grönegräs, Emma Béat takes up the subject of physical surveillance by making use of a novel approach. Wishing to explore the relationship between academic writings on surveillance and elements of popular culture that concern themselves with the modern dimension of surveillance, Béat used the opportunity offered by the MaRBLe programme to illustrate such relationship in a creative and pedagogical way. To do so, she prepared an audio-guide companion to Nosedive, one of the most illustr...

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Section: Iii: Privacy Is a Derivative Rightmentioning

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Section: V: Privacy Is Powermentioning

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Section: Analysis: Polg Nrw and Kplmentioning

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Section: Objections and Justificationsmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Government Surveillance, Privacy, and Legitimacy

Königs

2022

Philos. Technol.

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The recent decades have seen established liberal democracies expand their surveillance capacities on a massive scale. This article explores what is problematic about government surveillance by democracies. It proceeds by distinguishing three potential sources of concern: (1) the concern that governments diminish citizens’ privacy by collecting their data, (2) the concern that they diminish their privacy by accessing their data, and (3) the concern that the collected data may be used for objectionable purposes. Discussing the meaning and value of privacy, the article argues that only the latter two constitute compelling independent concerns. It then focuses particularly on the third concern, exploring the risk of government surveillance being used to enforce illegitimate laws. It discusses three legitimacy-related reasons why we should be worried about the expansion of surveillance capacities in established democracies: (1) Even established democracies might decay. There is a risk that surveillance capacities that are used for democratically legitimated purposes today will be used for poorly legitimated purposes in the future. (2) Surveillance may be used to enforce laws that lack legitimacy due to the disproportionate punishment attached to their violation. (3) The democratic procedures in established democracies fail to conform to the requirements formulated by mainstream theories of democratic legitimacy. Surveillance is thus used to enforce laws whose legitimacy is in doubt.

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Towards a new era of mass data collection: Assessing pandemic surveillance technologies to preserve user privacy

Ribeiro‐Navarrete

Saura

Palacios‐Marqués

2021

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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Controlling the coronavirus pandemic is triggering a cross-border strategy by which national governments attempt to control the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. A response based on sharing facts about millions of private movements and a call to study information behavior during the global health crisis has been advised worldwide. The present study aims to identify the technologies to control the COVID-19 and future pandemics with massive data collection from users’ mobile devices. This research undertakes a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) of the studies about the currently available methods, strategies, and actions to collect and analyze data from users’ mobile devices. In a total of 76 relevant studies, 13 technologies that are classified based on the following aspect of data and data management have been identified: (1) security; (2) destruction; (3) voluntary access; (4) time span; and (5) storage. In addition, in order to understand how these technologies can affect user privacy, 25 data points that these technologies could have access to if installed through mobile applications have been detected. The paper concludes with a discussion of important theoretical and practical implications of preserving user privacy and curbing COVID-19 infections in the global public health emergency situation.

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Data collection, counterterrorism and the right to privacy

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