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4 - Containing Corporate and Privatized Surveillance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2020

Scott Skinner-Thompson
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University of Colorado Law School
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As I’ve intimated to at several turns but now fully confront, government surveillance is not the only threat to the privacy of marginalized communities. Privatized surveillance – by corporations and by other individuals – also exacts a heavy toll. Privatized surveillance has many lenses focused on many targets: employers at their employees, surveillance capitalists at consumers, and individuals at one another.1 Each instantiation of privatized surveillance renders us less legally protected from additional surveillance, both because it erodes the degree to which we have kept information “secret” ex ante (a precondition for legal privacy rights, as discussed in Chapter 1), and because the surveillance data itself is often used by other surveillers – the government and corporations.

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Print publication year: 2020

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