Surveillance society

Digital Citizenship and Surveillance Society: Introduction

Digital citizenship is typically defined as the (self-)enactment of people’s role in society through the use of digital technologies. It therefore has empowering and democratizing characteristics. However, as shown by this Special Section, the context of datafication and ubiquitous data collection and processing complicates this picture. The Snowden revelations have demonstrated the extent to w...

Law enforcement surveillance in the network society

2013 International Society for Disease Surveillance Conference

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2012 International Society for Disease Surveillance Conference

under the theme Expanding Collaborations to Chart a New Course in Public Health Surveillance. During these two days, practitioners and researchers across many disciplines gathered to share best practices , lessons learned and cutting edge approaches to timely disease surveillance. A record number of abstracts were received, reviewed and presented – the schedule included 99 orals, 4 panels, 94 p...

From Technology-Driven Society to Socially Oriented Technology. The Future of Information Society - Alternatives to Surveillance

Our society is changing. Almost nothing these days works without a computer chip. Computing power doubles every 18 months, and in ten years it will probably exceed the capabilities of a human brain. Computers perform approximately 70 percent of all financial transactions today and IBM's Watson now seems to give better customer advise than some human telephone hotlines. What does this imply for ...