SOC316H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Risk Governance, Risk Management, New Laws
SOC316 Lecture 4:
Characteristics of New Surveillance
1. Transcends Distance carry information over vast distances, to seek out truth
2. Transcends Time deleted data can be retrived and restored email can be retrieved
even if you deleted it
3. Capital Intensive it’s a shift, o loger relyig o laor, you do’t eed a lot of people
as you did in the past, the cost of surveillance is capital intensive, a few number of
people can monitor, it is getting cheaper, cost of surveillance is changing
4. Shift from targeting specific target you do’t have to oit a rie to e
criminalized, everyone becomes a target of surveillance due to categorical suspicion,
you have to suspect everyone
5. Aimed at prevention how is surveillance used , anticipating violation, stopping them
before they happen
6. Decentralized Triggers Self Policing, non state agencies are involved in surveillance,
and given that surveillance are not aware of all the protections that are used
7. It is generally INVISIBLE you do’t really know who is doing the watching and that we
are being watched, it is embedded and depersonalized
8. Intensive and extensive it covers larger areas, accesses newer areas. Everyone is a
potential watcher, it is not just the state but it can also be everyday citizens involved in
this
Surveillance Drivers Haggerty et. Al
1. Technological Potential we have this neutral and positive view of technology, that
technology is a solver of problems, we have faith in technology that it is efficient
2. Personal Information Economy big data and social media , the fact that our personal
information is like the oil of 21st century that is how companies make profit by
exchanging our personal information to other companies
3. Neo-liberalism surveillance gets traded
4. Risk management the idea that we want to know all the risks that are out there, we
want to have all this knowledge to make smart decisions
5. National Security post 9/11 we see the demanding need of surveillance
6. Public Perceptions 60% of Canadians think surveillance is intrusive
7. New Laws new laws that add and feed the public perception that surveillance is
normal, it reshapes what we think of privacy
Responsibilization
• Unloading of responsibility from the state state steers but you have to show that you
were responsible, you row
• Rights discourse you have the right to a safe workplace connected to the idea that
you are responsible for ensuring a safe workplace. It is your responsibility to invest in
your future . The idea that there are no accidents , you have monitor and police your
workplace, you have to show that you have taken legitimate steps
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Document Summary
Everyone is a potential watcher, it is not just the state but it can also be everyday citizens involved in this. It is your responsibility to invest in your future . New criminologies of everyday life: crime is a normal social fact, crime becomes a risk with being an offender or victim. Risk & society: risk is a way we understand the world, risk is way to bring control and actionable knowledge, risk is against the gods, risk is way that conducts your conduct risk as a governmentality. Discipline we see in corrections, focus on reforming the soul. Sovereignty torture, focus is inflicting pain on the body, police powers of the state. Risk governance focus is minimizing risk and maximizing security. Characteristics of risk based governance: risk technologies are predictive that we somehow predict a future based on certain conditions , if we have perfect knowledge then we can predict something.
