CMNS 453 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Digital Footprint, Mobile App, Spime
16 Jul 2016
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Unit 9 mobile privacy & surveillance: from who you are to where you are . The affordances of mobile infrastructures and global systems are also working as a form of mobile surveillance to exist. Surveillance occurs in both private to public sections as well as peer-to-peer surveillance. Technical designs have turned mobile devices into tracking systems. Gps technology has become more advanced in which they"re able to provide precise locations of users. While snowden exposed the gov"t surveillance tactics all forms of surveillance aren"t sinister. Bennet, discusses geotagging through mobile devices work as a form of mobile surveillance which give corporations/businesses informations about their users. Consumer objects like cars and buildings are working to be more networks but are making us susceptible to surveillance. Ambient surveillance is the process in which machines are able to understand, manipulate and create data.
