[liberationtech] Swedish press question: How does surveillance change the citizen's behavior?

Robert Guerra rguerra at privaterra.org
Wed Dec 11 09:26:37 PST 2013


A great resource is also the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen's University. URL is as follows - http://www.sscqueens.org/

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On 2013-12-11, at 10:34 AM, Christopher Parsons wrote:

> Hi Anders,
> 
> There were 22 examples of organizations that have experienced chilling effects as a result of NSA surveillance. The various documents + some choice excerpts are available, here: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-files-22-firsthand-accounts-how-nsa-surveillance-chilled-right-association
> 
> Cheers,
> Chris
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> On December 11, 2013 at 7:54:31 AM, Anders Thoresson (anders at thoresson.net) wrote:
> 
>> I'm a swedish freelance reporter. Presently, I'm doing research for an 
>> article about how surveillance changes the behavior of the citizens. 
>> What my editor want my story to answer is essence one question, but a 
>> large one: "How does mass-surveillance like what's exposed by Edward 
>> Snowden change how people use the Internet?" 
>> 
>> Finding theoretical discussions isn't hard. What I'm trying to find is 
>> recent research that is based on real-life observations (or similar) how 
>> this actually happens. The PEN America's report is one good example[1], 
>> but I would also like to have research based on a wider demography, not 
>> well known authors and journalists. 
>> 
>> I understand that there hasn't gone long enough to do actual studies 
>> based on what has happened since Snowden's leaks, so what I'm looking 
>> for is studies that look into other kinds of online surveillance. 
>> 
>> I'm thankful for any pointers. 
>> 
>> [1] – http://www.pen.org/chilling-effects 
>> 
>> Best regards, 
>> Anders Thoresson 
>> http://anders.thoresson.se 
>> http://www.dn.se/blogg/teknikbloggen 
>> http://twitter.com/thoresson 
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