Under Surveillance: Technology Practices of those Monitored by the State
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Under Surveillance : Technology Practices of those Monitored by the State. / Sanches, Pedro; Tsaknaki, Vasiliki; Rostami, Asreen; Brown, Barry.
CHI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2020. 3376889 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Under Surveillance
T2 - 2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2020
AU - Sanches, Pedro
AU - Tsaknaki, Vasiliki
AU - Rostami, Asreen
AU - Brown, Barry
N1 - Funding Information: First and foremost, we thank our participants. We would also like to thank Kristina Höök and Donny McMillan for commenting on early versions of this manuscript. This work has been partly supported by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW) within the project "Engineering the Interconnected Society: Information, Control, Interaction", Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research project RIT15-0046 and Swedish Research Council project 2017-04804. Publisher Copyright: © 2020 ACM.
PY - 2020/4/21
Y1 - 2020/4/21
N2 - This paper documents the experiences of those living under state surveillance. We interviewed our participants about how they lived under threat, and how it changed their technology practices. Our participants spanned three groups - journalists who reported from countries where their activities were illegal; activists who took part in civil disobedience, and individuals who worked in illegal activities that would have likely led to prosecution. In our analysis we cover four themes: first, 'the imagined surveillant'. Second, the danger and dependencies of technology use, third, their coping strategies, and lastly how belonging to a group can protect but also expose. In our discussion we cover how we can design for dissidents, and how to deal with the difficult questions this raises. We conclude by advocating for research that takes into account a critical view of the state in HCI and more broadly for an anti-surveillance stance in the design of technologies.
AB - This paper documents the experiences of those living under state surveillance. We interviewed our participants about how they lived under threat, and how it changed their technology practices. Our participants spanned three groups - journalists who reported from countries where their activities were illegal; activists who took part in civil disobedience, and individuals who worked in illegal activities that would have likely led to prosecution. In our analysis we cover four themes: first, 'the imagined surveillant'. Second, the danger and dependencies of technology use, third, their coping strategies, and lastly how belonging to a group can protect but also expose. In our discussion we cover how we can design for dissidents, and how to deal with the difficult questions this raises. We conclude by advocating for research that takes into account a critical view of the state in HCI and more broadly for an anti-surveillance stance in the design of technologies.
KW - dissidents
KW - state
KW - surveillance
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85091280998&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3313831.3376889
DO - 10.1145/3313831.3376889
M3 - Article in proceedings
AN - SCOPUS:85091280998
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
BT - CHI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
Y2 - 25 April 2020 through 30 April 2020
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