Privacy and surveillance scholars, myself included, publish too much read little. That is basically the abstract for this opinion piece. So, if you’ve got message, you can stop reading. On second thoughts, maybe should continue

security as one of the basic human needs has a special place in relaxation, comfort and spiritual needs provision. for this reason, security is always of managers, planners, architects and urban designers' interest. solutions and strategies of security provision have been fundamentally changed following prevailing change of housing architecture patterns from homes to residential complexes ...

this paper attempts to analyze the consequences of using facebook and how it affects iranian couples, especially where family privacy is concerned. to put it in other words, the paper offers an argument on the question of how facebook membership challenges stability of the family system in the iranian society.  a special focus will be laid on facebook and its effect on transforming social norms...

liberalism as the basic ideology of the most western political orders has believed in its basic principals to fundamental human rights including the privacy and the realm that should be privileged from any one especially the public authority. however the public authorities frequently in the excuse of protection of the order and security or the necessity situation have confined the liberties and...

In this paper, we present a novel Holistic Framework for Privacy Protection Level Performance Evaluation and Impact Assessment (H-PIA) to support the design and deployment of privacy-preserving filtering techniques as may be co-evolved for video surveillance through user-centred participative engagement and collectively negotiated solution seeking for privacy protection. The proposed framework ...

—Recognizing that privacy rights are complicit in the very forms of economic monitoring and data gathering they ostensibly oppose, this essay offers a critique of corporate surveillance as a technique for exploiting the work of being watched. Consumers who submit to comprehensive surveillance in response to offers of convenience and participation perform valuable work for corporations and marke...

We present a model of surveillance based on social network theory, where observing one participant also leaks some information about third parties. We examine how many nodes an adversary has to observe in order to extract information about the network, but also how the method for choosing these nodes (target selection) greatly influences the resulting intelligence. Our results provide important...

In the digital era, citizens’ daily lives are taking place both in physical and realms. At same time, even most mundane activities increasingly affected by offline as well online surveillance. The privacy paradigm suggests that there is a difference between private public spheres of life, with technological advancement demarcation lines these have become blurred. As consequence, conceptions bec...

In present days rapid growth of internet has paved a path for increased utilization of distributed applications. The number of applications aredrastically increased for a distribution of video information to various places. In recent years, videos are also playingmajor role at various surveillance applications. Hence, propose a novel approach to share the videos to various places while providin...