Public & Privacy

Public & Privacy

Surveillance is the monitoring of behavior. Although surveillance can be a useful tool for law enforcement and security companies, many people have concerns about the loss of privacy. They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Today some artists and art groups concerned with surveillance.
Dataveillance is the systematic use of personal data systems in the investigation or monitoring of the actions or communications of one or more persons.
Privacy in definition is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves selectively.
Lawrence Lessig talks on the merits of inefficiency an inefficiency that makes it harder for these technologies to be misused. It is hard to argue that less is more.We build into such constitutions structures of restraint, that will check, and limit the efficiency of government, to protect against the tyranny of government.

Oscar H. Gandy, Jr. talks on the merits of inefficiency data mining systems which are designed to facilitate the identification and classification of individuals into distinct groups or segments.
Life where less is monitored is a life more private; and life where less can be searched is also a life more private. said Lessig on architecture of privacy.

Cookies are information that a web server stores on the machine running a web browser. encryption is the process of transforming information (referred to as plaintext) using an algorithm to make it unreadable to anyone except those possessing special knowledge, usually referred to as a key.

Technologies and architectures are important influences on the production and change of private and public space. but, they do not independently determine what is public and what is private.