The final piece of our four-part series on the various veillances to be aware of, how they operate and how you can reduce your exposure.
The Veillances Part Four: Uberveillance
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The Veillances Part Three: Sousveillance
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Part three of our four-part series on the various veillances to be aware of, how they operate and how you can reduce your exposure.
The Veillances Part Two: Dataveillance
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Part two of our four-part series on the various veillances to be aware of, how they operate and how you can reduce your exposure.
The Veillances Part One: Surveillance
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Part one of our four-part series on the various veillances to be aware of, how they operate and how you can reduce your exposure.
The Five Eyes watching
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Since the Snowden revelations the scale of surveillance on ordinary citizens by the intelligence agencies of democratic western governments has been in the news and regularly debated. The Five Eyes alliance is arguably the biggest holder of the data gathered by the various surveillance programs and thus it’s worth knowing how the alliance is spying on you.
Metadata 101
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‘We kill people based on metadata‘- General Michael Hayden (former Director of the CIA & NSA) (1)
Introduction
We won’t pretend the quote above isn’t set at the top of the article intentionally to get your attention (but we hope it worked!). Metadata as a term doesn’t sound very exciting so we wanted to get your attention so as to not skip over this article. We hope you bare the quote in mind because as you’ll see metadata has many positive, important, and unavoidable uses in our daily lives which will make the quote even more disconcerting. We’ve also created and linked to a How-To Guide on removing metadata at the end of the article.
Crisis Surveillance
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The fight to contain COVID-19 has introduced new powers of surveillance to governments around the world in a bid to contact trace. Whilst the public is mostly accepting this moral obligation, what are the lasting impacts for privacy after COVID-19 is behind us?
