Pecha Kucha

Web 2.0 & Surveillance

What is web 2.0

• Second generation of the WWW

• Ability for people to share information

• Non static

Smartphone revolution

• Collective intelligence moves from desktops to

• Cameras and sensors allow real time information.

Crowdsourcing

• Collective work created by web users

• Far more effective

• Eg. Ebay, Youtube, Twitter, flickr, facebook

Successful web 2.0 comapny

• Google

• GPS (cell tower)

• Voice recognition (Google microphone)

• Uses most frequent search terms for results

Growing web

• Smarter than in it was

• Search results, locations and voice recognition.

• Movement to smart phone

• Real time Data

Race for control

• Control over unique data

• Monopoly rents for data usage

The Government and Mass Surveillance is an example of how computing developments have led to modelling human

behaviour.

The government monitors:

How the Government tracks you

• Code names such as PRISM and XKEYSCORE which are surveillance systems.

• It is illegal and breaks the law

• NSA surveillance came to light when contractor Edward Snowden leaked documents.

History of Mass Surveillance

• American founders disagreed with British surveillance and established the 4th amendment with understanding that privacy is a basic human right.

• The 4th amendment prevents the government from tracking personal information unless there is evidence of a crime.

• The Government is breaking the law

History

• Government surveillance got worse when the US congress gave Fisa courts more authority to have surveillance on a large scale, allowing governments to search a list of people and their crimes including those with no offences.

• The Government can illegally track internet users based on search terms on popular websites, social networks and e-mails.

MARIJUANA

SICKBURN

The spying of people allows the government to have complete control over people’s lives which

makes people question free speech, free association and many more.

• http://broadbandworldforum.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/lebanons-appetite-for-smartphones-highlights-the-extent-to-which-mobile-can-meet-demand-for-internet-access/