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Information technology and dataveillance

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 31, Issue 5

Pages 498 - 512

https://doi.org/10.1145/42411.42413

Published: 01 May 1988 Publication History

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Data surveillance is now supplanting conventional surveillance techniques. With this trend come new monitoring methods such as personal dataveillance and mass dataveillance that require more effective safeguards and a formal policy framework.

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Reviewer: John W. Fendrich

This paper discusses the issues of surveillance in society. It emphasizes the ways information technology (IT) influences and stimulates surveillance. Definitions of surveillance, dataveillance, personal surveillance, and mass surveillance are presented. The author attempts to maintain a detached point of view, not claiming that surveillance is evil or undesirable. However, he asserts that IT is being applied to surveillance techniques with few guidelines or restraints and with limited regard to correctness, cost, or effectiveness. He calls for a harnessing of IT's decentralized potential in surveillance, and for more recognition of the implications of the application of IT in surveillance for a human-oriented society. The paper identifies many interesting issues and problems; however, it does not offer an effective, practical methodology to deal with the concerns it raises. The paper provides an introductory overview and review of the opinions and case studies provided in its long list of references. It is appropriate for information technologists and anyone interested in the social and ethical implications of applied information technology. The study of this paper could be the basis for personal reflection on strategies to address the issues it raises. I hope that, with the spate of papers of this genre, methodologies that combine IT and social values will be forthcoming that are adaptive to organizations and individuals and that meet their requirements.

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