Blurred lines: Surveillance and ethics

Sanjana Hattotuwa

–Time Berners-Lee, 12 March 2017

Political advertising online needs transparency and understanding

It’s too easy for misinformation to spread on the web We’ve lost control of our personal data

Youyou Wu and Michal Kosinski

Post-privacy world?

Everyone a suspect

Investigatory Powers Act 2016 or Snoopers’ Charter

• ISPs and mobile phone providers will keep a record of every website visit of anyone using a British network for up to a year. This includes sites visited through mobile browsers and phone apps (like Facebook) - but not individual web pages.

• The data will be stored by the network that collected it, but police and many government departments will be able to use a central search tool to find and access those records.

• Searches of that data will be conducted at the discretion of the police and will be overseen by a specially trained supervising officer only. Weak judicial oversight.

Intermediary liability

Beyond oversight

15th March 2014, email from a purported friend of Director of Intelligence Bureau

Military Intelligence, Sri Lanka Police, CID.

–William Gibson

“The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.”

Data is the new oil

Informed consent is increasing a myth

Surveillance the new norm

Encryption vs. surveillance. Targeted ops.

e-NIC and revolving doors

Intelligence in the cloud

Convenience cloaks siphoning

when does intelligence turn into surveillance? how to maintain control over privacy within ecosystem of competing owners, location sensors, proxy indicators, sentient nodes, ambient observation, pervasive automation

A pawn in someone’s Matrix?

thank you