{"id":100,"date":"2015-01-26T21:36:46","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T02:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/?p=100"},"modified":"2015-01-26T21:42:07","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T02:42:07","slug":"100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/2015\/01\/26\/100\/","title":{"rendered":"Formidable Dataveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dataveillance has been an ordinary technology that is mostly used to trace personal trading records or economic crimes. Lyon compares dataveillance with the ubiquitous surveillance in Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/em> and I see a lot of aspects they have in common. Let\u2019s assume a person uses credit card frequently in daily life. He pays the check in a restaurant, buys flowers for his date or refills his car on a vacation elsewhere. Anything he does can be retrieved from the data of time and location in the records. Although the surveillance system provides protection for the customers, \u201cBig Brother\u201d is indeed watching you. After all, the Panopticon is not so different from the \u2018Dystopia\u2019 of Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/em>. They both involve\u201cthe theme of exploiting uncertainty as a means of controlling subordinates.\u201d (62)\u00a0My uncle works in the Department of Internet in China. He told me that within one minute, he could pull out all records of a person in one year, including phone call, bank deal, utility bill, and browsing history. It echoes Lyon\u2019s perspective that ubiquitous electronic surveillance has become true and has profound impact in our daily life.<\/p>\n

Beside what we often consider as surveillance like dataveillance which comes down upon us from high-level inspection organizations, media, entertainment industry and social media provides opportunity for everybody to be one of the inspectors, just like the Panopticon. Two weeks ago, a Chinese young actor who has become famous few years ago had an affair. One week after the news, he published a letter of apology on his personal Weibo account in which he said he almost collapsed mentally. The formidable pressure is from the fans and media. People have become the Big Brother who constantly monitor others through the eyes of internet.<\/p>\n

The electronic surveillance is not only ubiquitous but also omniscient. While we were exploring Google\u2019s Ngram Viewer, I couldn\u2019t stop thinking about the Google advertisement. The Cloud Data technology enables Google to put on the commercials that most interest me. They make decision based on all activities bound to my Google account. Recently, the most popular Chinese mobile social networking app WeChat<\/em>, operated by Tencent, decided to run commercials to its eleven hundred million users with Cloud Data technology.<\/p>\n

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Lyon, David. \u201cFrom Big Brother to the Electronic Panopticon.\u201d\u00a0The Electronic Eye: The\u00a0Rise of Surveillance Society<\/em>. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1994. 57-79. Print.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dataveillance has been an ordinary technology that is mostly used to trace personal trading records or economic crimes. Lyon compares dataveillance with the ubiquitous surveillance in Nineteen Eighty-Four and I see a lot of aspects they have in common. Let\u2019s assume a person uses credit card frequently in daily life. He pays the check in … Continue reading Formidable Dataveillance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-readers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}