The Future of Digital Surveillance: Why Digital Monitoring Will Never Lose Its Appeal in a World of Algorithm-Driven AI

Length: 188 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication Date: 2021-05-03
ISBN-10: 0472074849
ISBN-13: 9780472074846
Sales Rank: #3426932 (See Top 100 Books)

Are humans hard-wired to make good decisions about managing their privacy in an increasingly public world? Or are we helpless victims of surveillance through our use of invasive digital media? Exploring the chasm between the tyranny of surveillance and the ideal of privacy, this book traces the origins of personal data collection in digital technologies including artificial intelligence (AI) embedded in social network sites, search engines, mobile apps, the web, and email. The Future of Digital Surveillance argues against a technologically deterministic view—digital technologies by nature do not cause surveillance. Instead, the shaping of surveillance technologies is embedded in a complex set of individual psychology, institutional behaviors, and policy principles.

Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1. Putting Individual and Economic Determinants in Perspective
1.1. The Battle over Control of Digital Privacy
1.2. Theorizing Erving Goffman’s Hunch
Part II: Fundamentals of Privacy and Surveillance
Chapter 2. A Perspective on Institutions
2.1. The Political Economy of Privacy and Personal Data Surveillance
2.2. Evidential Trends: The Locus of Privacy Protection in the Marketplace
2.3. Conclusion: Privacy, Market Externalities, and Dual Responses to Privacy and Surveillance
Chapter 3. A Perspective on Individuals
3.1. Social Psychology of Privacy
3.2. Empirical Evidence in Two Strands
3.3. Conclusion: People’s Cognitive Agency, Stratification, and Inequalities
Chapter 4. A Perspective on Policy Principles and Regulation of Data Flow
4.1. The Logic of Minimal Policy Intervention in Digital Marketplaces
4.2. “Vast Wonderlands” of Privacy, Policies, and the Digital Ecosystem
Part III: Understanding the Future of AI and Its Challenge
Chapter 5. Ushering in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
5.1. The Unregulated Industry of Algorithms and AI
5.2. AI, Big Data, and Intelligent Machines
5.3. The Normalization of Data Surveillance in the AI-Based Ecosystem
Part IV: Conclusion
Chapter 6. Alternative Policy Principles, Options, and Recommendations
6.1. A New Paradigmatic Solution of “East Coast” and “West Coast” Codes
6.2. Norm Creation: Lessons from the Fight against Global Climate Change
Chapter 7. The Future of Digital Surveillance
7.1. Stories of Two Smart Cities—and a Yet Smarter One
7.2. Social Construction of AI: Goffman’s Public- Private Boundary Management
7.3. The Business of Formulating Directional Hypotheses
7.4. The Decisive Epoch: Look Back to Look Ahead
Appendix A. The Locus of Privacy Protection in the Marketplace
Appendix B. Empirical Evidence in Two Strands
B.1. Knowledge Networks Study: All Measures Analyzed
B.2. Privacy Mobile Study: Mobile Privacy Knowledge
Notes
References
Index