Essays about: "Government surveillance"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 29 essays containing the words Government surveillance.

  1. 16. Internet Surveillance Law in the UK and Article 8 'Right to Privacy'

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Spencer Whiskard; [2018]
    Keywords : Internet; Surveillance; Article 8; Right to Privacy; Technology; ECHR; ECtHR; IPA 2016; Investigatory Powers Act 2016; Hacking; Data; Digital; 1984; Freedom; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The danger that mass surveillance poses to concepts of ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’ have long been a topic of fiction as well as of hard academic study. George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is a work that some might disregard as mere post-apocalyptic whimsy but its arguably accurate recreation and prediction of the methods utilized by the totalitarian government to maintain absolute control over a population serves to give the novella a grim level of scholastic technicality and precision. READ MORE

  2. 17. Expanding surveillance in the name of national security

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Lunds universitet/Pedagogik; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Global Studies; Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Markus Rankka; [2018]
    Keywords : Finland; intelligence legislation; surveillance; security; threat; media; securitization; exceptionalism; Law and Political Science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the Finnish government’s and its agents’ discursive justifications for the recently proposed civil and military intelligence legislation. In order to analyse the Finnish governmental agents’ discursive practices, this thesis engages with two additional questions; how are threats to Finnish security constructed in media, and how is the concept of exceptionalism constructed in media. READ MORE

  3. 18. A GDPR compliant address infrastructure mobile application for Ugandan and Rwandan users

    University essay from KTH/Medieteknik och interaktionsdesign, MID

    Author : Lina Modin Larsson; [2018]
    Keywords : Address infrastructure; Uganda; Rwanda; ICT; Interaction Design; Mobile application; GDPR; Personal data; Privacy;

    Abstract : More than half of the world's population are negatively affected by inadequate addresses. In Uganda and Rwanda, efforts have been done to implement a national address system but the effectiveness of those efforts have been prevented, due to lack of understanding and fears regarding its impact. READ MORE

  4. 19. Public security and methods of government surveillance- An experimental approach to how public approval is shaped by a perceived threat

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Clara Segerstedt; [2017-09-08]
    Keywords : Government surveillance; experimental research; geographical proximity; interpersonal trust; governmental trust;

    Abstract : The study of government surveillance is continually important as new policies are made or the extent of the surveillance leaked to the public. Earlier research has found that there is a relationship between people’s perception of a threat to public security with their approval of such government surveillance. READ MORE

  5. 20. Building a More Trusting and Caring Society : Surveillance and the Evolving Role of Architecture in Developing Positive Community Spaces

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet

    Author : Daniella Ricci; [2017]
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    Abstract : Our right to privacy is often taken as being an implicit right, one that is rarely questioned as we move about the city. However, standing in marked contrast to this right, is the government’s need to surveil and control society in delivering the narrative to provide security for its citizens. READ MORE