{"id":76,"date":"2013-11-07T20:30:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T20:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/?p=76"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:12:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:12:34","slug":"spies-like-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/2013\/11\/07\/spies-like-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Spies Like Us?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">A recent<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/10\/25\/world\/europe\/europe-summit-nsa-spying\/\"> CNN article<\/a> reports that relationships between EU officials and the US have been \u201cseverely shaken\u201d on account of information leaked by Edward Snowden that the NSA monitored the personal cell phones of 35 world leaders, possibly including Germany\u2019s Angela Merkel. The statement made by Obama&#8217;s homeland security and counterterrorism adviser Lisa Monaco raises the important question: Are we collecting information because we need it or just because we can?<\/p>\n<h5>While privacy and publicity are often portrayed as a tradeoff, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/editors\/\">the editors<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/\">Cyborgology<\/a> demonstrate that in many cases, one is a necessary condition for the other.<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nathanjurgenson.tumblr.com\/bio\">Jurgenson, N., <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/pjrey.tumblr.com\/biography\">Rey, P.J.<\/a> \u00a02013. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/145727711\/The-Fan-Dance-How-Privacy-Thrives-in-an-Age-of-Hyper%E2%80%90Publicity\">The Fan Dance: How Privacy Thrives in an Age of Hyper-Publicity. \u00a0<\/a>In <em>Unlike Us Reader: Social Media Monopolies and their Alternatives<\/em>. Lovink, G. and Ratsch, M. (eds.). Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures. 62-75.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Although we typically think privacy is \u201cfreedom from\u201d government intrusion, some scholars say society makes it a \u201cfreedom to\u201d choose whether or not to disclose personal information. From this perspective, \u00a0both social and technological solutions are needed to solve privacy issues.<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/steinhardt.nyu.edu\/faculty_bios\/view\/danah_boyd\">Boyd, D<\/a>. and <a href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/people\/amarwick\">Marwick, A<\/a>. September 22, 2011. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1925128\">Social Privacy in Networked Publics: Teens\u2019 Attitudes, Practices, and Strategies.<\/a> \u00a0A Decade in Internet Time: Symposium on the Dynamics of the Internet and Society.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Leading scholars show how many government practices are invented and learned to manage their populations.<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Foucault-Effect-Studies-Governmentality\/dp\/0226080455\">The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality: With Two Lectures by and an Interview with Michel Foucault<\/a>. 1991. Burchell, G., Gordon, C.,&amp; \u00a0Miller, P. (Eds.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent CNN article reports that relationships between EU officials and the US have been \u201cseverely shaken\u201d on account of information leaked by Edward Snowden that the NSA monitored the personal cell phones of 35 world leaders, possibly including Germany\u2019s Angela Merkel. 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