{"id":92,"date":"2015-01-26T18:58:21","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T23:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/?p=92"},"modified":"2015-01-26T18:58:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T23:58:21","slug":"dataveillance-a-step-past-orwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/2015\/01\/26\/dataveillance-a-step-past-orwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Dataveillance, a step past Orwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much like Winston Smith, we are all very aware that we are being surveyed \u00a0in one way or another. Every time we use the internet or a credit card, data pertinent to our lives is automatically entered into massive databases under control of both government and private agencies. I even know several people who keep tape over the webcam on their computers, making the comparisons to <em>Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/em> and its two-way television even more clear and relevant. However, <em>Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/em>&#8216;s model of &#8220;Big Brother&#8221; falls short of modeling the current surveillance of American society. \u00a0One such weaknesses of Orwell&#8217;s model is its lack of covertness. In\u00a0<em>Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/em>, citizens were made well aware of their own surveillance. And while today we are very well aware that the government and other agencies are keeping watch, the day to day ways in which we are surveyed are often not even realized. A subtle Google search may seem insignificant enough, but every search can easily be cataloged into massive databases accessible by the powerful few. \u00a0It wasn&#8217;t even until Edward Snowden&#8217;s leaks that this type of surveillance has become common household knowledge or discussion. Therefore, we could be classified as much more naive than the citizens of Oceania with regards to surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>Dataveillance is a word which captures the spirit of today&#8217;s massive surveillance efforts. The term suggests not only a visual surveillance such as Orwell envisioned, but a surveillance of data in general. The thought that massive databases which collect wide varieties of different data types are now being used to characterize and model our lives is quite sobering, and a reality which we&#8217;ve already witnessed in this class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much like Winston Smith, we are all very aware that we are being surveyed \u00a0in one way or another. Every time we use the internet or a credit card, data pertinent to our lives is automatically entered into massive databases under control of both government and private agencies. I even know several people who keep &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/2015\/01\/26\/dataveillance-a-step-past-orwell\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dataveillance, a step past Orwell<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-readers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}