Revista Teknokultura (Aug 2014)

Global Surveillance and Forms of Resistance

  • Javier de Rivera,
  • Ángel Gordo López

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_TK.2014.v11.n2.48239
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 2
pp. 237 – 242

Abstract

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The great technological advances in our century also entail the development of surveil - lance abilities that were unimaginable just two decades ago. The digitalization of practically all communications leaves few social action and interaction spaces escaping technological me - diation. Obviously, telecommunications infrastructure is not designed to guarantee the privacy and secrecy of personal communications and activities, but rather to strengthen surveillance centralization.