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Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Service industries > Security services > Surveillance services
In 2013, former U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden leaked secret documents revealing that state agencies like the NSA had spied on the communications of millions of innocent citizens. International outrage resulted, but the Snowden documents revealed only the tip of the surveillance iceberg. Apart from insisting on their rights to tap into communications, more and more states are placing citizens under surveillance, tracking their movements and transactions with public and private institutions. The state is becoming like a one-way mirror, where it can see more of what its citizens do and say, while citizens see less and less of what the state does, owing to high levels of secrecy around surveillance.
In this book, Jane Duncan assesses the relevance of Snowden’s revelations for South Africa. In doing so she questions the extent to which South Africa is becoming a surveillance society governed by a surveillance state. Duncan challenges members of civil society to be concerned about and to act on the ever-expanding surveillance capacities of the South African state. Is surveillance used for the democratic purpose of making people safer, or is it being used for the repressive purpose of social control, especially of those considered to be politically threatening to ruling interests? She explores the forms of collective action needed to ensure that unaccountable surveillance does not take place and examines what does and does not work when it comes to developing organised responses.
This book is aimed at South African citizens, academics as well as the general reader, who care about our democracy and the direction it is taking.
What our health data tell American capitalism about our value-and
how that controls our lives. Afterlives of Data follows the curious
and multiple lives that our data live once they escape our control.
Mary F. E. Ebeling's ethnographic investigation shows how
information about our health and the debt that we carry becomes
biopolitical assets owned by healthcare providers, insurers,
commercial data brokers, credit reporting companies, and platforms.
By delving into the oceans of data built from everyday medical and
debt traumas, Ebeling reveals how data about our lives come to
affect our bodies and our life chances and to wholly define us.
Investigations into secretive data collection and breaches of
privacy by the likes of Cambridge Analytica have piqued concerns
among many Americans about exactly what is being done with their
data. From credit bureaus and consumer data brokers like Equifax
and Experian to the secretive military contractor Palantir, this
massive industry has little regulatory oversight for health data
and works to actively obscure how it profits from our data. In this
book, Ebeling traces the health data-medical information extracted
from patients' bodies-that are digitized and repackaged into new
data commodities that have afterlives in database lakes and oceans,
algorithms, and statistical models used to score patients on their
creditworthiness and riskiness. Critical and disturbing, Afterlives
of Data examines how Americans' data about their health and their
debt are used in the service of marketing and capitalist
surveillance.
Collect data and build trust. With the rise of data science and
machine learning, companies are awash in customer data and powerful
new ways to gain insight from that data. But in the absence of
regulation and clear guidelines from most federal or state
governments, it's difficult for companies to understand what
qualifies as reasonable use and then determine how to act in the
best interest of their customers. How do they build, not erode,
trust? Customer Data and Privacy: The Insights You Need from
Harvard Business Review brings you today's most essential thinking
on customer data and privacy to help you understand the tangled
interdependencies and complexities of this evolving issue. The
lessons in this book will help you develop strategies that allow
your company to be a good steward, collecting, using, and storing
customer data responsibly. Business is changing. Will you adapt or
be left behind? Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of
the topics that are shaping your company's future with the Insights
You Need from Harvard Business Review series. Featuring HBR's
smartest thinking on fast-moving issues—blockchain,
cybersecurity, AI, and more—each book provides the
foundational introduction and practical case studies your
organization needs to compete today and collects the best research,
interviews, and analysis to get it ready for tomorrow. You can't
afford to ignore how these issues will transform the landscape of
business and society. The Insights You Need series will help you
grasp these critical ideas—and prepare you and your
company for the future.
Suicides, excessive overtime, hostility and violence on the factory
floor in China. Drawing on vivid testimonies from rural migrant
workers, student interns, managers and trade union staff, Dying for
an iPhone is a devastating expose of two of the world's most
powerful companies: Foxconn and Apple. As the leading manufacturer
of iPhones, iPads and Kindles, and employing one million workers in
China alone, Taiwanese-invested Foxconn's drive to dominate global
electronics manufacturing has aligned perfectly with China's goal
of becoming the world leader in technology. This book reveals the
human cost of that ambition and what our demands for the newest and
best technology mean for workers. Foxconn workers have repeatedly
demonstrated their power to strike at key nodes of transnational
production, challenge management and the Chinese state, and
confront global tech behemoths. Dying for an iPhone allows us to
assess the impact of global capitalism's deepening crisis on
workers.
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