COVID-19: A New Age of Intelligent Surveillance?

Governments across the globe, from China, India, to Norway, are developing intelligent surveillance technologies, often in close collaboration with private tech companies to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. But is it safe to use these contact tracing apps? What could be the consequences for society in the long run? In this podcast episode, Hallvard talks with Tereza Kuldova, a social anthropologist and Senior Researcher at the Work Research Institute. Tereza is currently working on the topics of algorithmic governance, surveillance, and artificial intelligence in policing and the welfare state. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Extreme Anthropology. For more information, please visit: www.tereza-kuldova.com. See Tereza talk about this topic at the conference Imagining The Post-Coronavirus World https://youtu.be/j7oRFvegW9A?t=1007 Video from the conference Imagining The Post-Coronavirus World Read more: Tereza is the Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Extreme Anthropology – http://www.extreme-anthropology.com https://www.algorithmic-governance.com/ Günther Anders – The Obsolescence of Privacy, 1958 https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/count.2017.0073?journalCode=count Kuldova, T. (2020) Imposter Paranoia in the Age of Intelligent Surveillance: Policing Outlaws, Borders and Undercover Agents. Journal of Extreme Anthropology 4(1): 45-73 DOI: https://doi.org/10.5617/jea.7813 Ananny, M., and K. Crawford. 2018. ‘Seeing without Knowing: Limitations of the transparency ideal and its application to algorithmic accountability.’ New Media & Society 20 (3): 973-989. Benjamin, R. 2019. Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code. Medford, MA: Polity Press. Finn, E. 2017. What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. Jensen, B. M., C. Whyte, and S. Cuomon. 2019. ‘Algorithms at War: The Promise, Peril, and Limits of Artificial Intelligence.’ International Studies Review 0: 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viz025. Katzenbach, C., and L. Ulbricht. 2019. ‘Algorithmic Governance.’ Internet Policy Review 8 (4): 1-18. Morozov, E. 2013. To Save Everything, Click Here. NY: Public Affairs. Noble, S. U. 2018. Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. New York: New York University Press. O’Neil, C. 2016. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy. New York: Crown. Susskind, J. 2018. Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Valentine, S. 2019. ‘Impoverished Algorithms: Misguided Governmnents, Flawed Technologies, and Social Control.’ Fordham Urban Law Review46 (2): 364-427. Zuboff, S. 2019. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. London: Profile Books.