What is the Surveillance-industrial Complex?
According to Ball & Snider (2013), surveillance is a combination of ‘socio-technical means through which jurisdiction interacts with social relations of commodity production.’
The surveillance-industry complex emerged from military and corporate institutions, and has been has been shaped by their capitalist mechanisms (Ball & Snider 2013). In other words, governments and other institutions are taking advantage of surveillance programs to gain more profit.
Why is Surveillance Important?
[…] centralization, commercialization and datafication trends have also made it easier for governments and companies to engage in surveillance activities aimed at controlling, censoring and tracking down political dissents and HRD.
Hache & Jansen, 2018
*HRD: Human Rights Defender.
Reference List
Ball, K., & Snider, L. (Eds.). (2013). “The surveillance-industrial complex: towards a political economy of surveillance?”. (pp 1-5). Routledge.
Hache, A., & Jansen, F. (2018, July 9). “Privacy, Surveillance and Data Tracking: Why Does it Matter for Human Rights Defenders?”. Ritimo. Retrieved from https://www.ritimo.org/Privacy-Surveillance-and-Data-Tracking-Why-Does-it-Matter-for-Human-Rights
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