The Age of Super Surveillance: How Technology Helps to Undermine Democracy, Rule of Law and Human Rights in the Reunified Germany

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

The Age of Super Surveillance: How Technology Helps to Undermine Democracy, Rule of Law and Human Rights in the Reunified Germany

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Surveillance is nothing new. Since we record history, governments have created clandestine organizations to find out what their enemies were planning. Denunciation was and is a widely used method especially in autocratic regimes to bring surveillance into the most private areas of people. The German Nazi secret police, the Gestapo and later the GDR Stasi were experts in collecting data but analyzing them still caused problems. Today, the center of a new right-wing fascist movement forms itself not only in the states of East Germany, plotting ideas about German superiority and super surveillance. And it is a technology which enables the spreading of ideas, actions and violence against democracy, rule of law and human rights. Technology today is able to do what the old system of surveillance couldn’t do: close the loopholes and actually process huge amounts of data in real-time. Do people actually ask: who will do what with these data? Platforms and especially social media are the new playgrounds of extremists and cyberwarriors. How surveillance can be total shows the new system which China is currently establishing. So, the questions are: How much privacy do people need? How can we protect ourselves against the ever-increasing demand not only of governments but also of private organizations to reveal our most private feelings, thoughts and activities? Who to trust? Does privacy in fact still exist in a time when people share their innermost secrets openly and voluntarily online? What are the success factors of efficient surveillance systems? This article analyses past and present surveillance systems and organizations, the technology involved and its impact on Germany 30 years after the fall of the wall and the end of the East German dictatorship.

Název v anglickém jazyce

The Age of Super Surveillance: How Technology Helps to Undermine Democracy, Rule of Law and Human Rights in the Reunified Germany

Popis výsledku anglicky

Surveillance is nothing new. Since we record history, governments have created clandestine organizations to find out what their enemies were planning. Denunciation was and is a widely used method especially in autocratic regimes to bring surveillance into the most private areas of people. The German Nazi secret police, the Gestapo and later the GDR Stasi were experts in collecting data but analyzing them still caused problems. Today, the center of a new right-wing fascist movement forms itself not only in the states of East Germany, plotting ideas about German superiority and super surveillance. And it is a technology which enables the spreading of ideas, actions and violence against democracy, rule of law and human rights. Technology today is able to do what the old system of surveillance couldn’t do: close the loopholes and actually process huge amounts of data in real-time. Do people actually ask: who will do what with these data? Platforms and especially social media are the new playgrounds of extremists and cyberwarriors. How surveillance can be total shows the new system which China is currently establishing. So, the questions are: How much privacy do people need? How can we protect ourselves against the ever-increasing demand not only of governments but also of private organizations to reveal our most private feelings, thoughts and activities? Who to trust? Does privacy in fact still exist in a time when people share their innermost secrets openly and voluntarily online? What are the success factors of efficient surveillance systems? This article analyses past and present surveillance systems and organizations, the technology involved and its impact on Germany 30 years after the fall of the wall and the end of the East German dictatorship.

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50601 - Political science

Projekt

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Návaznosti

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Rok uplatnění

2019

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název statě ve sborníku

Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Rights. Organized in Prague on March 7–9, 2019, Anglo-American University, Czech Republic, Norwich University, Vermont, USA: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference.

ISBN

978-80-906585-9-2

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e-ISSN

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Počet stran výsledku

12

Strana od-do

134-145

Název nakladatele

Anglo-American University

Místo vydání

Praha

Místo konání akce

Prague

Datum konání akce

7. 3. 2019

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

WRD - Celosvětová akce

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