Diagonal mass surveillance: Gulliver versus the Lilliputians

Didier Bigo (1)

1 CERI - Centre de recherches internationales (Sciences Po, CNRS)

Mass surveillance does not follow the vertical logic of pure state surveillance as imagined by Orwell. Rather, it is diagonal – building on the information we voluntarily disclose to engage in our own "surveillance" of online friends. This makes it much more perverse.

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Political science

Didier Bigo. Diagonal mass surveillance: Gulliver versus the Lilliputians. 2014. ⟨hal-03393004⟩