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Surveillance, Snowden, and Big Data: Capacities, consequences, critique

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Abstract
The Snowden revelations about National Security Agency surveillance, starting in 2013, along with the ambiguous complicity of internet companies and the international controversies that followed provide a perfect segue into contemporary conundrums of surveillance and Big Data. Attention has shifted from late C20th information technologies and networks to a C21st focus on data, currently crystalliz...
Keywords
Big data
Metadata
Sociology
Transparency (behavior)
Panopticon
The Internet
Internet privacy
Data science
Political science
Computer security
Computer science
Law
Politics
World Wide Web
Operating system
Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
Peace, justice, and strong institutions

2014
Article

Open Access


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Surveillance, Snowden, and Big Data: Capacities, consequences, critique
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Surveillance, Snowden, and Big Data: Capacities, consequences, critique

Citations:

771

References:

51

Abstract
The Snowden revelations about National Security Agency surveillance, starting in 2013, along with the ambiguous complicity of internet companies and the international controversies that followed provide a perfect segue into contemporary conundrums of surveillance and Big Data. Attention has shifted from late C20th information technologies and networks to a C21st focus on data, currently crystalliz...
Keywords
Big data
Metadata
Sociology
Transparency (behavior)
Panopticon
The Internet
Internet privacy
Data science
Political science
Computer security
Computer science
Law
Politics
World Wide Web
Operating system
Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
Peace, justice, and strong institutions

2014
Article

Open Access


pdf file