The strategy of the obfuscation as the reaction to the digital surveillance
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https://doi.org/10.15633/ssc.3334Keywords:
obfuscation, digital surveillance, information noise, privacy, asymmetries of power and information, search engine, social mediaAbstract
Users, who take advantage of the digital media, gradually lose their privacy. Internet corporations and national governments use the new technology to track people. It is impossible to avoid the surveillance. Common users will not cope with the fight with Internet giants and state administrations. Helen Nissenbaum and Finn Brunton recommend the defense against the domination of the strong ones. They present the strategy of the obfuscation, i.e. such activity while using the digital media, which will not allow to collect true information about the user, because the information noise will be formed around him. The aim of this article is to show the examples of the digital surveillance, and to present the reaction to this surveillance, namely, the strategy of the obfuscation.References
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