At first glance, Citizenfour was the documentary that blew me right away. It had uncovered so many things about how the government is always spying on what we do in our day-to-day lives and can tell where we are, at what time, and instance. Personally, I find that to be super creepy because we lose our complete privacy to a total stranger. Something that I would like to further research in relation to the documentary is mass surveillance techniques and how the government still does it today even though they may say they don’t. Specifically the debit card mass surveillance technique. I know companies deem it safe when you add a card to something like the apple wallet but after watching this documentary I feel like they know everything about you and what your daily lifestyle is by just seeing your daily purchases. They even see purchases of others around you and can track who you specifically interacted with. Sure they may say, “Oh we aren’t doing that anymore”, but how true is it really? I would definitely dive deep into an area where companies and the NSA say that they don’t do it anymore and try and see if I could find examples of surveillance that occurs today from trusted sources.
March 16, 2022 at 12:34 pm
Citizenfour blew me away as well. I was shocked to see the invasion of privacy that was occurring and the massive scale at which it was taking place. Your idea of diving into the topic of surveillance in today’s seems very interesting and I think you will find great results.
March 16, 2022 at 12:44 pm
I also found the debit card mass surveillance technique intriguing. It reminded me of OMNY, where you can use a physical card or a card connected to the digital wallet on your phone to pay your fare to access MTA transportation services. If you plan on talking about this mass surveillance technique in your paper it may be interesting to research data policies in relation to OMNY.