After this course:
- the student demonstrates a strong knowledge of the complex issues and processes related to contemporary security issues.
- the student is able to think critically about the cultural, social, economic and political relations between security polices, privatization and legitimate actors.
- the student understands the balance between national security priorities and privacy and the legal regime that applies to maintain this balance online and offline.
- the student is able to examine the asymmetrical nature of modern intelligence and the limitations of traditional surveillance techniques.
- the student has knowledge of current developments taking place within online data surveillance, with particular emphasis on transnational mobility control.
- the student demonstrates appropriate cognitive, communicative and transferable skills;
- the student has developed the capacity to learn independently, criticise major texts and approaches, and lead class discussions.
- the student is able to apply theoretical and empirical knowledge on security studies and surveillance in a particular "case study" and is able to report on it both orally and in written form.
- is able to present the latest techniques and knowledge in modern computing and authentication methods in the form of a workshop.
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Increasing mobility, intensive technological developments and expanding transnational consumerist markets triggered new developments in preventive control measures promising security in different fields of everyday life. Card-protected office doors, digitalized home protection systems, identity protection software on phones and laptops, secured online money transfers are normalized as tools of accumulative control measures, justified by the sake of individual security. Social relations are shaped by transitional technocratic bureaucracies using surveillance systems that transform the field of policing. These changes elicit growing attention in different academic disciplines, in particular in the field of legal and security studies, with a focus on social effects of securitization, data surveillance and the role of governments in particular data collection practices in protecting privacy and safeguarding accountability.
This course combines theoretical discussions (what is security) with detailed case studies that address, international migration, technologies of security, and surveillance. It provides information on these changes in four main themes. First of all, it covers the spatiality of aerial surveillance and the cultural reproduction of security. Secondly, this course provides in-depth knowledge on the use of private data and smart security in a global context. Thirdly, a critical analysis is provided regarding biometrics, electronic documenting, and visibility in criminal identification practices. As last it covers recent discussions on the impact of surveillance technologies such as social trust, privacy and resistance as data activism. These discussions not only cover the field of social media and secrecy in the age of sharing, but also the regulatory context and technological infrastructures. Students will gain a broad understanding of the competing tensions of national security and privacy in the post-Snowden era, and grasp the looming consequences of this battle for technological developments cyber sovereignty, and human rights.
Place of the course in the curriculum:
- Compulsory in Master Criminology, track Crime, Punishment and Security.
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