Название: The Future of Digital Surveillance: Why Digital Monitoring Will Never Lose Its Appeal in a World of Algorithm-Driven AI
Автор: Yong Jin Park
Издательство: University of Michigan Press
Год: 2021
Страниц: 189
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 10.2 MB

Are humans hard-wired to make good decisions about managing their privacy in an increasingly public world? Or are we helpless victims of surveillance through our use of invasive digital media? Exploring the chasm between the tyranny of surveillance and the ideal of privacy, this book traces the origins of personal data collection in digital technologies including Artificial Intelligence (AI) embedded in social network sites, search engines, mobile apps, the web, and email. The Future of Digital Surveillance argues against a technologically deterministic view - digital technologies by nature do not cause surveillance. Instead, the shaping of surveillance technologies is embedded in a complex set of individual social psychologies, institutional behaviors, and policy principles, with digital technologies outpacing our imagination. Stay tuned for the results. The future is likely to be from rosy, as digital surveillance will never lose its seductive appeal in the world of "normalized" AI, algorithms, robotics, and Web 3.0.

This book was conceived when I spent a sabbatical semester at the Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP), Princeton, where I became fascinated by the resurgent interest on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning. Even before that experience, I had often pondered the mysteries of privacy and conducted numerous quantitative and qualitative investigations. The genealogy of privacy- surveillance scholarship runs deeper and wider than perhaps anyone can imagine. We often call it a privacy study if it focuses on individuals. It becomes a surveillance study if the emphasis is on institutional arrangements for power, control, and resistance.

“While the end of privacy as we know it is a certainty, privacy is not doomed. In this analytically strong book, Yong Jin Park shows that regulatory solutions are available, at least in the US and the EU. The strongest achievement of this book is the full integration of the individual perspective of privacy and the institutional drive of surveillance enabled by AI and Big Data.” -Jan A.G.M. van Dijk, Professor of Communication Science and the Information Society at the University of Twente and author of The Network Society