From Dataveillance
to Überveillance and the Realpolitik of the
Transparent
Society
The Second Workshop on Social
Implications of National Security
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Cover, Copyright, Foreword, Reviewers, Contents
Editors:
Michael, K. & Michael, M.G.
Series: Research Network for a Secure Australia (RNSA)
Publisher:
Publication Year: 2007
Format: Book
ISBN: 978-1-74128-141-5 (print)
ISBN:
978-1-74128-142-2 (pdf)
Workshop
Presentations
IP Location-Based Services
Research Program
Doug MacKinnon
Centre
for Transnational Crime Prevention,
2 A note on überveillance
3 Keynote address:
What
‘überveillance’ is and what to do about it
4 Keynote appendix: Surveillance
vignettes
5 Owning identity- one or many-
do we have a choice?
7 Message in a bottle: Stored
communications interception as practised in Australia
Rob Nicholls and Michelle Rowland
8 Australia and the ‘war against terrorism’:
Terrorism, national security and human rights
Graduate
9 Panel session: The case for detention without charge in suspected terrorism cases in
10 The benefits and concerns of
public data availability in Australia: a survey of security experts
Roba Abbas
11 Re-using public sector information (PSI) for profit: Who’s data is it anyway?
Mark Burdon
Faculty of Law,
Lucy Resnyansky
Defence
Science and Technology Organisation
14 Something smart going on:
the apocalyptic aesthetics of surveillance
15 Auto-ID and location-based services in national security: Social implications
16 Privacy implications of
automated GPS tracking and profiling
Muhammad Usman
Iqbal and Samsung Lim
Katina Michael and Gregory Rose
18 ePassport security under the microscope
19 Improving information security management: an Australian universities case study
Tim
Lane and Lauren
May
Faculty of Information Technology,
Workshop Close
IP Location-Based Services
Research Program
Media Reports
1.
Interview (
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Interview (
3. Bernie
Goldie (
4. Bernie
Goldie (
Other Information
1. How do I
reference a paper from the
proceedings?
Clarke, R.
(2007), “What ‘überveillance’ is and what to do about it”, in K. Michael and
M.G. Michael (eds), From Dataveillance to
Überveillance and the Realpolitik of the Transparent Society, University of
Wollongong, NSW, Australia, pp. 9-26.
2. Will
updated proceedings be published in a journal(s)?
Yes. The
proceedings will be published in special issue journals. Still waiting for
confirmation on special issues from individual publishing houses.
4. Can I
view the actual presentation schedule delivered at the workshop?
Yes.
5. What
were the submission guidelines for authors?
6. What was
the acceptance rate of papers?
Sixty-three
percent.
7. How many
people registered for the workshop?
Seventy-three.
8. Ninety-seven percent rated the workshop proceedings as “excellent”.
9. Eighty percent rated the overall workshop as “excellent”, and twenty
percent said it was “very good”.
Workshop Survey- What People Had to Say About
the Workshop?
It was my pleasure to attend the workshop. Congratulations for your great
work organising it.
It was an honour for me to present my work to the workshop, and receive
great feedback. I had a really good time appreciating the different
perspectives of researchers from various backgrounds. The conference was really
very well organised.
Thank you for a very interesting conference... I was struck by how you
managed, not only to be well organised and to print the papers beforehand, but
to create an atmosphere of warmth and intimacy...
Thank you so much for organising such an excellent workshop. I have
thoroughly enjoyed myself and was happy to be able to contribute in some small
way...
Congratulations to you and Michael - yesterday was a fantastic day! We were
both saying it was the best run 'conference' we had attended, as well as being
very interesting…
Clearly this is a topic of great current interest. There was an excellent
list of speakers and I would have liked to have been able to stay for the day
and listen to them all. The whole day was run very professionally and set a
very high standard for any future conference organisers.
It was a great workshop & well worth the travel. I think that the
workshop is unique in the national security research field in
The things I liked about the workshop:
• Fresh focus on national security issues,
away from the pure law focus
• Interrogating the relationship between
technology and national security
• Inter-disciplinary perspectives
• Immediacy, validity, real world case
studies and examples
• Engaging topics and speakers, generally
high quality
• Diversity of topics
• The variety of topics
• Friendly atmosphere, high density of ideas,
great organization
• The importance of opposing surveillance
• The widespread issues addressed by überveillance
• The balance between surveillance and
security ethics
• High profile key presenters from academia
• Simple yet elegant arrangements
• Varied content, interesting
• Roger Clarke was excellent
• Impressive facilities, especially for free-
remarkable
• Incredible diversity
• All presenters were very well prepared
• GPS tracking, RFID tracking, stored
interception and warrants
• Variety of presentations
• Quality of presentations
• Well organized
• Free workshop on a university campus
• Speakers from a variety of perspectives
(e.g. different academic disciplines, government, business, variety of
countries)
• Good to have just one track with everyone
together all day.
• Broader view of national security
• Difference between “academia” and real-life
experiences
• A complex world made complicated
• Good quality speakers
• Interesting and broad scope of topics
• Food
• Multi-disciplinary approach
• Range of papers
• Bound volume as output
• The opportunity to hear and learn from
others interested in similar issues
• Some really interesting papers, especially
location ID/GPS
• Generally really nice people and organizers
• Free entry. Academia is not about
profiteering
• Merges the issues of society, technology,
law and policy
• I would consider submitting a paper next
year
• Topics covered and interesting themes
• Proceedings were well-organised and
published before the event
• Venue
• Diversity of paper presentations
•
• Question time and breaks for interaction
• Learning what’s going on in the field
• The range of topics covered
• Varying views on certain topics
• Presentation of new/developing technologies
• Free and on campus
• Friendly and well informed
• Easily comprehensible
• Well organized and well timed, most
enjoyable
• The quality of work put into presentations
• Topics were interesting
• Coffee was great!
• Wide range of academics and disciplines
• Some industry involvement
• Excellent speakers from multifaceted
domains
• Themes were topical and different
• Being in the same theatre and listening to
each others’ presentations the whole day
What themes would you have liked to be
presented that were not?
• Role of corporations and big business in
shaping the national security framework/landscape in
• Good coverage as is. But I would be
interested on pop/political aspects- how to ‘sell’ and discuss problems with
surveillance
• The themes were chosen carefully and
presented different aspects of the problem. Quite comprehensive as is.
• Greater detail of the Australian laws like
the ASIO Act. Why is surveillance necessary today?
• The perspective of the individual and
affordability of all the various security measures.
• Surveillance by international
regimes/government within
• Needed more time for each presentation.
• More focus on Australian legal
acts/legislation on areas of privacy.
• More about identity theft today and related
concerns into the future.
• More coverage of data protection acts.
• Security infrastructure being developed for
the future.
• More detail.
• The issue of national security vs. public
safety.
• Use of data by private sector. E.g. what
they are doing or permitted to do with personal information (e.g. direct
marketing).
• Some legislative challenges, e.g. spam,
Privacy Act.
• Information security.
• More technical aspects of privacy, security
and surveillance. E.g. how it works and what is the impact on social
activities.
• A good selection.
• Some topics that hit a more technical point
of view to show how the theory relates to “real-life” applications.
• More security practitioners
• If possible greater involvement from
intelligence community
• Longer talks.
• Seminars and discussion time.
• More on the security side.