Surveillance and Privacy

Recent social and technical developments are expanding surveillance by the government and private sector and intensifying privacy concerns, resulting in a surveillance-privacy dilemma. Governments establish surveillance schemes to fight terrorism and crime. Private organizations use profiling and data mining techniques to target marketing endeavors, to analyze customer behavior and monitor the work practices of employees. Social networks bring to the fore new means for the surveillance of individuals, publishing intimate details about themselves. Individuals are usually unaware of the constant data collection and processing in their surroundings. They are effectively losing control over their personal spheres. The aim of the conference track " Surveillance and Privacy " is to discuss and analyze, from multidisciplinary perspectives, the privacy risks of surveillance for individuals and society, as well as solutions for protecting an individual's right to informational self-determination. As argued by Edwards et al. [1] the key question is " whether we choose, for any given problem, a social or a technical solution, or some combination. It is the distribution of solutions that is the object of study. An everyday example comes from the problem of email security. How do I distribute my trust? I can delegate it to my machine, and use Pretty Good Encryption for all my email messages. Or I can work socially and organizationally to make certain that sysops, the government, and others who might have access to my email internalize a value of my right to privacy. Or I can change my own beliefs about the need for privacy – arguably a necessity with the new infrastructure " (p.6). The Track 3 on " Surveillance and Privacy " at HCC9 is introduced by a keynote presentation by Klaus Brunnstein on the future of Privacy and Surveillance in the Information Society. In the four articles of this track, authors either inscribe privacy solutions in technical artifacts (Hoepman and Kuntze & Rudolph) or argue and advocate for a more social solution to the privacy-surveillance dilemma (Clarke and Verplanke et al.). In the panel, the members dissect and debate the future of privacy for the millennial generation. In " Privacy enhanced fraud resistant road pricing " , Hoepman presents an architecture for a road pricing system where privacy is achieved by implementing two technical design principles: (i) splitting of trips into short segments (so-called legs) that are non-linkable to each other and (ii) distributing the process steps needed to determine …