Our digital devices are putting our right to privacy at risk
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- #Legal implications
- #Digital surveillance
- #Data privacy
- Digital connectivity provides personal benefits such as navigation aids, fitness tracking, smart appliances, and home security systems.
- Daily generation of personal data creates legal uncertainties about its use by law enforcement and the judicial system.
- Professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson explores 'self-surveillance'—how personal data can lead to incrimination due to insufficient regulation.
- Ferguson describes this as 'democratically mediated self-surveillance,' funded by tax dollars and enabled by ubiquitous smart devices.
- The vulnerability of personal data can be weaponized by governments, depending on political motivations and power dynamics.