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- 1. Pecha Kucha Presentation: Surveillance, tracking & mapping
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- (Introduction to surveillance-mapping and modelling human behaviour.) Surveillance has huge environmental effects on our lives. Every piece of data gathered from surveillance is available to everyone and if bad could come back to trouble you in the future. GPS, motion sensors and cctv cameras all play in a major role in mapping and modelling human behaviour. From the making of these various other activities have occurred whether it be on the computer or mobile phone to track people around the world.
- Movement tracking: Movement tracking can be put onto mobile phones and various other platforms. It follows every movement a person that has the device makes. The beneficial things about movement tracking is that if someone loses a phone there is a possibly they can find out whether it has been stolen or where they left it. The iPhone has an app installed called “find my iPhone” and it is made for anyone that happens to lose their iPhone to have a chance to find it. There is a tracking system on the phone that will locate it whereabouts when you don’t have it. Another beneficial thing about tracking movement is that new technology is turning cameras and smartphones into tracking devices that are capable of following peoplesmovements wherever they are, even inside a store. And surprisingly can even track right down to where you're looking.
- Social networking sites: Social networking site tracking is good for mapping your own activities. Timelines are kept on social networking sites that show all of your information every day, every month and also every year. Anyone can find out information about one another through various websites now. This can be good depending on who is searching for the information
- Not all movement tracking is considered beneficial though, it can also be problematic. Some people feel as if they have no privacy when it comes to themselves and the police. New technologies have been made which allow the police to (as some people would say) intrude into someone's personal information. A mobile phone security monitor called watchhound is used by police to listen to telephone conversations. This is another way of hacking but is made legal because its being used by authority. Another surveillance device is called stingray, it is mostly used by police in the US. It connects to mobile phones everywhere and collects data and the locations of where it is even when a phone call hasn’t been made. Cellbrite is a device that can download everything from one person’s phone onto another.
- I am a big user of social networking sites, especially Twitter and Facebook. All my activities on each site are mapped throughout the day. I think this is good because I can keep track of what I do and who I talk to online. Also if anything was to happen to me authorities could see who I had been talking to that day. I think surbeillace devices and apps are a good thing but I also dislike the fact that authorities can look into everything we do as it feels that I have no privacy even while using my own phone.
- Mapping activities on social networking sites also help authorities when it comes to investigations. Even though people may forget, all activity online is monitored. I have looked at various features of social implications regarding surveillance in every day life. Surveillance can be used in the public as a positive thing, its linked to security and keeping the public safe but at the same time it can be seen as a negative thing because it serves for government purposes and used to power over the public.