The digital individual and the private realm

被引:76
作者
Curry, MR
机构
[1] Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
[2] Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles
关键词
geographic information systems; geodemographics; privacy; surveillance; law; technological change;
D O I
10.1111/1467-8306.00073
中图分类号
P9 [自然地理学]; K9 [地理];
学科分类号
0705 ; 070501 ;
摘要
Geographic information systems and the technological family associated with them-global positioning systems, geodemographics, and remote surveillance systems-raise important questions with respect to the issue of privacy. Of most immediate import, the systems store and represent data in ways that render ineffective the most popular safeguards against privacy abuse. But the systems are associated with more fundamental changes in the right to privacy and even, some would say, with challenges to the possibility of privacy itself. They make reasonable and acceptable the view that technological change is inevitable and autonomous, and therefore, too, are the development of increasingly comprehensive dossiers on individuals and households and the use of increasingly powerful means for the technological enhancements of vision. And their use in the creation of data profiles supports a wide-ranging reconceptualization of community, place, and individual. Nonetheless, in the ways they create and use digital profiles, the systems do offer suggestions for a partial remedy to the problems that they have created.
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页码:681 / 699
页数:19
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