HIST 4030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Australia Card, Canudos
Document Summary
Binary definition of surveillance being good or bad. Reluctance - shape how surveillance is carried out. Because of cultural social context you can ask for same info and people would react differently. What government thinks it needs to know - what info people are willing to provide. How one single system applied in different parts of the world can have different responses/modes of resistance. Gender marrying - electoral/legal barriers to make poor people not vote. Country in middle east selling passport and citizenship to their country. Lots of wealthy people taking advantage of it. Forging passports - travel where ever you want. There is always counter technology to break security. Biometric passports- more expensive because you have greater standards. People are more fearful about federal government projects in the future-- privacy breached. You can"t do anything with just that card. All info you need is stored in a database. Government still goes through with national id proposal.
