Saturday, 4 December 2010

WEEK 8 PRIVACY AND SURVEILLANCE CULTURES

Dataveillance is the surveillance of a person's activities by studying the data created by actions such as credit card purchases phone calls and also the internet. Surveillance is the monitoring of an individual's behaviour either from a distance for example CCTV cameras or from the internet.
There is a slogan that says "Big Brother is watching you", Big Brother is a reality television show in which a group of people live together in a large house which is isolated from the outside world but can be watched by television cameras. Each series lasts for two months with mostly 15 participants from all over the world and the winner goes home with a cash prise after avoiding all forms of eviction. The idea of Big Brother started in 4th September 1997 but it was first aired in Netherlands in 1999 on the Veronica TV channel.
Lastly, Bureaucracy is a set of protocols and regulations put in place to manage the activities of organisation, mostly large organisations.

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