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1st Edition

Trust and Transparency in an Age of Surveillance

Edited By Lora Anne Viola, Paweł Laidler Copyright 2022

276 Pages

by Routledge

276 Pages

by Routledge

Description

Investigating the theoretical and empirical relationships between transparency and trust in the context of surveillance, this volume argues that neither transparency nor trust provides a simple and self-evident path for mitigating the negative political and social consequences of state surveillance practices. Dominant in both the scholarly literature and public debate is the conviction that... Read more

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. On the Relationship Between Trust, Transparency, and Surveillance

Lora Anne Viola and Paweł Laidler

Part I: Rethinking Transparency’s Relationship to Power and Domination

2. The Limits of Transparency as a Tool for Regulating Surveillance: A Comparative Study of the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany

Lora Anne Viola

3. A Neo-Republican Critique of Transparency: The Chilling Effects of Publicizing Power

Matthew Hall

4. The Dynamics of Imposed Transparency and its Role in Deep Social Conflicts

Shaul A. Duke

5. Classifying and Dividing Labor: The Political Economy of Racializing Surveillance

Markus Kienscherf

Part II: Transparency and Trust as Institutional Constraints and Critical Praxis

6. Secrecy Versus Transparency in the US National Security Surveillance State

Paweł Laidler

7. Secret Surveillance in Poland After Snowden: Between Secrecy and Transparency

Mateusz Kolaszyński

8. Legal Safeguards and Oversight Innovations for Bulk Surveillance: An International Comparative Analysis

Thorsten Wetzling and Kilian Vieth

9. Transparency and Surveillance of End Users on Social Media Platforms: A View of Structural Economic Factors

Abel Reiberg

Part III: Sources of Trust and Virtues of Mistrust in an Age of Surveillance

10. Trust and Surveillance: An Odd Couple or a Perfect Pair?

Fredrika Björklund

11. Trustworthy Humans and Machines: Vulnerable Trustors and the Need for Trustee Competence, Integrity, and Benevolence in Digital Systems

Sara Degli-Esposti and David Arroyo

12. Why a Militantly Democratic Lack of Trust in State Surveillance can Enable Better and More Democratic Security

Miguelángel Verde Garrido

Outlook

13. Surveillance, Transparency, and Trust: Critical Challenges from the COVID-19 Pandemic

David Lyon

Editor(s)

Biography

Paweł Laidler, Ph.D. is Professor of Political Science at the Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.

Lora Anne Viola, Ph.D. is Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Politics Department at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin.

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