Dans un style franchement lourdingue (surtout pour un article de cette taille-là), mais quand même intéressant, par Antonio Cassili.
Four theses on mass surveillance and privacy negotiation —
Medium
▻https://medium.com/@AntonioCasilli/four-theses-on-digital-mass-surveillance-and-the-negotiation-of-privacy-7254
A French Digital Theory approach to a post-Snowden world.
The current political debate is fueled by growing concern over the implementation of a digital mass surveillance framework aimed to gather, store and process data from transactions, interactions and everyday uses of information and communication technologies. In the wake of Edward Snowden’s early revelations about the US PRISM program, the general public were surprised and frightened by the extent to which the intelligence agencies of western democratic governments were intercepting information from their own citizens. These events are poised to force a profound change to the relationship between governments and those they govern, contributing to an unprecedented climate of geopolitical instability compounded by the fact that markets are increasingly playing less of a role as third party forces correcting states’ securitarian excesses. As the responsibilities of stakeholders in the digital economy become clearer through the creation of a vast military-industrial complex, we enter a phase of tension and distrust between consumers and private sector businesses.
In the space where the political challenges of digital technologies are played out, economic and strategic interests promote these surveillance methods, maintaining they simply build on the tools that modern states have long used to monitor populations. In fact, they represent a clean break with past approaches.
The deployment of a digital mass surveillance system has been made possible by a long-term shift towards the expression of a powerful executive, combined with the infiltration of military interests in the democratic apparatus, as well as by the gradual assimilation between domestic security matters and the doctrine of national security.
Although the executive power’s tendency to operate with no counterbalance could be seen as part and parcel of a democratic project that is constantly in fieri (an ‘unfinished democracy’, to borrow Pierre Rosanvallon’s terms), the securitarian phenomenon stands apart by the way it has grown into an all-encompassing discourse influencing the methods of democratic deliberation, obstructing the ability of the legislative and judicial branches to control executive bodies on the one hand, and the manifestations of a general willingness to respect citizens’ freedoms and fundamental rights on the other.