Computers, Privacy & the Constitution

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 The extensive use of surveillance got almost no media coverage or legal balancing required by the constitution. In fact, until recently there was no legal framework whatsoever to regulate this highly offensive practice. Only late in 2012 the Israeli Information and Technology Authority published a regulation dealing with this issue, but these barely received any public discourse and it is even unclear whether they are regulated under the correct authority.

I believe that the background of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the ongoing notion of security crisis and the fragility of freedom, made the public underestimate their constitutional right for privacy. The unfortunate truth is that there are only small group of activists organizations (the biggest of them is the Association for Civil Rights in Israel), that proudly bear the flag of the basic right of human dignity and privacy; and, through the roaring crash of national security propaganda, their faint protest is barely noticeable.

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I think we can agree that this is a context, fear, in which efforts by governments to deploy mass surveillance structures have occurred successfully. Surveillance is the core of any organism's immunology. So when we have documented the social and cultural context in which a particular state has adopted the technologies available, can we do more? Is there something at stake beyond the description of one among many simultaneous social developments taking place with remarkable uniformity despite the (not terribly extensive) variation in the rhetoric of state justification, or the relatively lax granting of social and political acceptance?

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