Information technology and dataveillance
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Data surveillance is now supplanting conventional surveillance techniques. With this trend come new monitoring methods such as personal dataveillance and mass dataveillance that require more effective safeguards and a formal policy framework.
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Students may decide always and only to pursue materials suggested by learning analytics systems, replacing personal intellectual values with those pushed by their institution.
“Subsequently, the student may decide always and only to pursue materials suggested by LA systems, replacing personal intellectual values with those pushed by his or her institution.91”
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The tendency to integrate surveillant technologies and computer networks has prompted a shift towards dataveillance.
“The tendency to integrate surveillant technologies and computer networks has prompted a shift towards 'dataveillance,' or the 'systematic use of personal data systems in the investigation or monitoring of the actions or communications of one or more persons' (Clarke 1988: 499).”
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Data-centric approaches in surveillance studies often overlook the nuance of quotidian operations under dataveillance afforded by masking and relegating responsibilities within surveillants' digitized chains of command.
“While immensely important, these data-centric approaches often overlook the nuance of quotidian operations under dataveillance afforded by the masking and relegating of responsibilities within the surveillants' digitized chains of command.”
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- Authors
- Clarke, R.
- Affiliations
- Australian National University (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Clarke, Roger
- ORCID
- Clarke, Roger
- Venue
- Communications of the ACM
- Published
- 1988-05
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 498-512
- ISSN
- 0001-0782 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-7317
- OpenAlex
- W2126690184
- Cited by
- 767
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 16.63
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Communications of the ACM (publishedVersion)
- ANU Open Research (Australian National University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Australian National University
- University of New South Wales
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
- Social Sciences › Law › Digitalization, Law, and Regulation
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Keywords
- dataveillance, mass surveillance, privacy safeguards, surveillance policy, information technology
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