COVID-19 and the Rise of Participatory SIGINT: An Examination of the Rise in Government Surveillance Through Mobile Applications.
The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a significant growth in government surveillance techniques globally, primarily through the use of cell phone applications. However, although these applications can have actionable effects on public health efforts to control pandemics, the participatory or voluntar...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Public Health Vol. 110; no. 12; pp. 1780 - 1786 |
|---|---|
| Autores principales: | , , |
| Formato: | Artículo |
| Publicado: |
American Public Health Association
Dec2020
|
| Materias: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Ver este registro en EBSCOhost |
| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=146968083&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 146968083 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00900036 APH jtl: American Journal of Public Health issn: 00900036 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Dec2020 vid: 110 iid: 12 pid: 44 pub: American Public Health Association artinfo: ui: 146968083 10.2105/AJPH.2020.305912 ppf: 1780 ppct: 6 formats: tig: atl: COVID-19 and the Rise of Participatory SIGINT: An Examination of the Rise in Government Surveillance Through Mobile Applications. aug: au: Bernard, Rose Bowsher, Gemma Sullivan, Richard affil: All authors are with the Conflict and Health Research Group, Kings College London, London, UK. su: COVID-19 pandemic Electronic surveillance Government regulation Mass surveillance policy Biosurveillance Mobile apps Quarantine Acquisition of data sug: subj: COVID-19 pandemic Electronic surveillance Government regulation Electrical Contractors and Other Wiring Installation Contractors Mass surveillance policy Biosurveillance Mobile apps Quarantine Acquisition of data keyword: COVID-19 Ethics Global Health Government Human Rights Social Science SUBJECT CODES COVID-19 Ethics Global Health Government Human Rights Social Science SUBJECT CODES ab: The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a significant growth in government surveillance techniques globally, primarily through the use of cell phone applications. However, although these applications can have actionable effects on public health efforts to control pandemics, the participatory or voluntary nature of these measures is obscuring the relationship between health information and traditional government surveillance techniques, potentially preventing effective oversight. Public health measures have traditionally been resistant to the integration of government-led intelligence techniques, such as signals intelligence (SIGINT), because of ethical and legal issues arising from the nature of surveillance techniques. We explore this rise of participatory SIGINT and its nature as an extension of biosurveillance through 3 drivers: the rise of surveillance capitalism, the exploitation of a public health crisis to obscure state of exception politics with a moral imperative, and the historically enduring nature of emergency-implemented surveillance measures. We conclude that although mobile applications may indeed be useful in containing pandemics, they should be subject to similar oversight and regulation as other government intelligence collection techniques. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
|---|