Human Versus Non-human Capital and Societal Power /Information and Surveillance Technologies

Question 1:

Human- vs Non-human Capital

Think of an example in your life where human capital was in conflict with non-human capital and describe it. Which had the power advantage in your example, and why?

Question 2:

Does privacy really matter to you? Why or why not?

Required Readings

Allen, A. ( 2009). Driven into society: philosophies of surveillance take to streets of New York. Amsterdam Law Forum. 1 (4), 35-40. Retrieved from http://ojs.ubvu.vu.nl/alf/article/view/92/157

Prins, C. (2009). Selling my soul to the digital world?. Amsterdam Law Forum, 1(4), 7-10. Retrieved from http://ojs.ubvu.vu.nl/alf/article/view/89/153

Ostergaard, S. D. (2004). European trends in privacy: how can we increase internet security and protect individual privacy?. Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 2 (2), 25-29. Retrieved from http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/CV$/sci/pdfs/P282885.pdf

Shiffman, G., & Ravi, G. (2013). Crowdsourcing cyber security: a property rights view of exclusion and theft on the information commons. International Journal of the Commons, 7(1), 92-112. Retrieved from http://www.thecommonsjournal.org/index.php/ijc/article/view/343/318

TED. (2014, October). Glenn Greenwald: Why privacy matters [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.ted.com/talks/glenn_greenwald_why_privacy_matters

Human- vs Non-human Capital

Think of an example in your life where human capital was in conflict with non-human capital and describe it. Which had the power advantage in your example, and why?