The Ethics of Digital Surveillance | Kathryn Carnell | Deadwood 2022
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The Ethics of Digital Surveillance: Making Sense of Our Liberties in a Connected Age
With more people transitioning to work-from-home, practical technological integrations have reached new heights. This is great! More tech in our daily lives means new problems, new perspectives, new solutions, and more creativity: widening the field to include all kind of people and situations is a good thing.
However, being an increasingly networked-society also means being increasingly at-risk: if not directly, then indirectly, and not just from “black hat hackers”. We as Cybersecurity professionals wrestle regularly with the data brokerage market and how that connects to maintaining CIA for our clients and our industry: whether those clients practice data brokerage as a business strategy, or whether they are clients seeking cyber-secure tools to help them eliminate data harvesting from their lives. Data collection can be used for good (digital forensics, in one example) or, it can be used unethically, to exploit (as in the alleged case of UNITED STATES V. EPSILON DATA MANAGEMENT, LLC).
I believe that just as in a biological environment, there is an optimal harmony in our digital environment between the data surveillance/collection and personal/corporate privacy models that will best aid our mutual thriving as a civilization which relies on both digital networking and social networking, to live and work.
In my short presentation I will lay out the environment Users unexpectedly find themselves in and talk about preventing paranoia when introducing people to Cybersecurity; outline BOTH the positive and negative applications of data brokerage/surveillance and info-markets; and posit a practical, middle-road cultural/ethical response which we can share with our clients, companies, friends, and family to our increasingly-networked world.
My goal is to encourage reflection.
---Kathryn is currently an associate instructor at ThriveDX and graduated from UCF in Cybersecurity. She likes Star Wars, her cats, and living in the endless summer of southern Florida.
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