Instructor: Tom Lauer and Jay Meehan
Course Time: TBA
General Education: Social Science
Term: Winter 2014
DESCRIPTION:
Surveillance is a characteristic of modern society where people are sorted into categories for various reasons (e.g. entitlements, allocation of services, for market advantage, and for safety) and with significant impact. This sorting occurs through the use of personal information that is systematically and routinely collected by government and corporate organizations.
Privacy concerns the control of information about oneself and protection from intrusion into one's personal existence. There have been a number of harms identified that have to do with the collection, storage, analysis, sharing, and decision making which utilizes the personal information.
PROPOSED TEXTS:
- Garfinkel, Simson (2000). Database Nation. Cambridge, MA: O'Reilly.
- Other texts TBD