Surveilance

Religious groups existing on the fringes of US Society can quickly find themselves pushed outside the borders of acceptability by the onset of war, especially if they hold pacifist convictions and an avid desire to proselytise. Gary Perkins shares the history of one such group, the International Bible Students Association.

Mass surveillance is blessing and curse for our life. Modern Day surveillance has made our life risk free and at the same time our privacy is compromised. In the Book, 1984, the writer assumed a surveillance state where each and every aspect of human emotion is controlled by the ruling state. The key factors of our life like language, emotions are controlled and monitored by the state. People doesn't have anything to say anything as they are being manipulated psychologically to abide by the rules and regulations. In recent days people are also being watched and our movement is checked. The reason is our safety by eliminating the human threat, assessing the crime scene after checking the cctv footage, apprehend a crime in progress, monitor unlawful activities by the law enforcement agencies. On the other hand, we are being watched everywhere, we cannot express our opinions independently as for the controversy issues, our track record is kept for analysis, out personal data is being collected and checked which is really a matter of concern as we all have something to keep private. In this paper, the varying dimensions of surveillance are discussed and analysed in an empirical manner.

What does home mean to you? Relief as you walk in the door after a long day of work? Peace when you lie on the couch on a cosy Sunday afternoon? Perhaps above all it's the place where the outside world is left behind. But today the home has become a hybrid space, both public and private. In the information society, the network connects dwellings with the world, integrating the inside with the outside. The hybrid home is not merely a private sanctuary but a space invaded by digital newcomers-technology corporations who aggregate behavioural surplus value from ordinary people. Privacy, the thing we value most about home, is under threat.

In this paper, I argue that careful attention needs to be paid to the handling of urban CCTV digital data. Since the early 1990s, CCTV has left an indelible mark on UK cities, and beyond. CCTV is a crime-reduction strategy, and its activation owes much to the laws and regulations that govern its function and the passivity with which it is often viewed. I consider the nature of security when CCTV signs, recorded images and the rights of citizens are interlinked in controlled urban spaces. Despite the regulatory powers of the Data Protection Act, the management of CCTV data is at times poorly operationalised and often obfuscated. The paper discusses my experiences of identifying 17 different CCTV cameras and being recorded and my attempts to access my images through subject access requests (SARs). In what follows, I draw on different topologies of experience in expanding upon the mutable, unpredictable and intensive relations that guide the management of CCTV data.

This article explores how Internet surveillance in the name of counter-terrorism challenges privacy. In the Part II, the article analyses the international dimension of counter-terrorism measures and the conceptualisation of data protection and privacy in the European Union, the United States of America and Australia. Part III compares the different concepts of data protection and privacy, and explores the prospects of an international legal framework for the protection of privacy. Part IV concludes that work on international data protection and privacy standards, while urgently needed, remains a long-term vision with particular uncertain prospects as far as anti-terrorism and national security measures are concerned.

Surveillance is part of the Muslim New Yorker experience, and informants, almost always Muslim themselves, are part of their communities. It is in this context that Muslim New Yorkers partly rely on Islamic theology to question their experience with state surveillance. As this article demonstrates, Muslim interpretations of theology tend to see suspicion and surveillance as sinful conduct, rendering the mission of the informant sinful in the eyes of Muslim New Yorkers. Moreover, as suspicion, monitoring, and spreading rumors is often interpreted as Islamically sinful, targets of surveillance often feel conflicted about suspecting a fellow Muslim of being an informant or even discussing such suspicions with other individuals. Furthermore, relying on Islamic theology to deal with their experience as surveilled subjects does not prevent Muslims from toning down their religious visibility in order to avoid state surveillance because of chilling effects and the mechanisms of internment of the psyche.

La surveillance fait partie de l'expérience des musulmans new-yorkais et les informateurs (indics), presque toujours musulmans eux-mêmes, font partie de leurs communautés. C'est dans ce contexte que les new-yorkais musulmans s'appuient en partie sur la théologie islamique pour questionner leur expérience de la surveillance étatique. Comme le montre cet article, les interprétations théologiques musulmanes tendent à considérer la suspicion et la surveillance comme des péchés, ce qui rend la mission de l'informateur religieusement condamnable aux yeux des musulmans new-yorkais. De plus, dans la mesure où la suspicion, le fait d'épier et la propagation de rumeurs sont interprétées comme des péchés, les cibles de la surveillance sont souvent tourmentées quant à la possibilité de soupçonner un coreligionnaire d'être un informateur ou même de discuter de telles suspicions avec d'autres personnes. Il faut noter par ailleurs que s’appuyer sur la théologie islamique pour traiter de leur expérience en tant que sujets surveillés n’empêche pas les musulmans d’atténuer leur visibilité religieuse afin d’éviter la surveillance de l’État à cause de la peur qu'elle provoque (chilling effects) et de l'autodiscipline qu'elle induit (internment of the psyche).

The digital world is a field of information and entertainment for users and a field of extraction of the most valuable good of recent years: personal data. How much of a threat to privacy is the collection and processing of data by third parties and what do people think about it? On the occasion of the extensive methods of surveilling citizens and collecting their data, this study attempts to contribute new empirical data evidence from the international research on the use of the Internet by the World Internet Project on attitudes and behaviors of individuals regarding online privacy and surveillance. The aim is to determine whether and to what extent the recorded concerns about the violation of privacy intersects with a growing acceptance of its very absence.

En genel tanımıyla “bilgi” parçası anlamına gelen enformasyon, edinilme şeklinden, hakikâtinin aranışına; öğrenilmesinden, yayılmasına kadar pek çok tartışmaya konu olmaktadır. Dijital teknolojilerle birlikte, toplum giderek şeffaflaşmakta, enformasyonlar da bu durumdan nasibini almaktadır. “Şeffaflık” kavramı her şeyin dürüst ve apaçık bir şekilde gözler önüne serilmesi gibi olumlu bir çağrışımı akıllara getirse de “şeffaf olan, hakikati gösterir” demek, büyük bir yanılgının içerisine düşmeyi de beraberinde getirmektedir. Özellikle tekno-deterministler, dijital ortamın demokratik bir ortam sunduğunu ve şeffaflık sağlamasından ötürü de tercih edildiğini belirtmekte, bu ortamda ne kadar şeffaf olunursa, o kadar güven duyulacağını da vurgulamaktadırlar. Şeffaflık düşüncesine eleştirel bir perspektiften bakanlar ise şeffaflığın bir yanılgı olduğu, bu ortamın bireylerin gözetlenmesi ve mahremiyetlerinin parçalanmasını hazırladığını düşünmektedirler. Sosyal ağların gelişmesiyle birlikte durmaksızın üretilen enformasyon, giderek daha şeffaf bir hale gelmekten de kaçamamaktadır. “Enformasyonun şeffaflaşması özgürlük mü yoksa tutsaklık mı getirir?” sorusu bu çalışmanın temel problemidir. Bu problemden hareketle, özellikle sosyal medya araçları ile birlikte enformasyon dolaşımının artması ve bu artışın enformasyonları daha da şeffaflaştırmasına neden olmasının arkasında ne gibi sorunlara yol açabileceğini göstermek ise çalışmanın amacını oluşturmaktadır. Çalışmada veriler, literatür taraması yöntemiyle toplanmıştır. Kuramsal altyapı oluşturulurken giderek şeffaflaşan toplum düzenine eleştirel yaklaşımlar getiren Zygmunt Bauman, David Lyon, George Simmel ve Byung Chul Han’ın düşünceleri ekseninde hareket edilmiştir. Ayrıca bu çalışma, toplumun giderek şeffaflaşmasına eleştirel bir bakış açısı getirmeyi hedeflemektedir.

Following the ECJ decision that declared the Data Retention Directive invalid, the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 (DRIP) has been enacted. It is not indisputable whether the DRIP gives more powers to the intelligence services at the detriment of both citizens’ privacy and freedom of enterprise or whether it simply clarifies the nature and extent of obligations that can be imposed on telecommunications service providers based outside the UK under Part 1 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA). The article provides news also on Data Retention Regulations 2014, R (David Davis MP and Tom Watson MP) v Secretary of State for the Home Department and the proposed Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill, making some final comment on the balance among security, privacy and competition.

Il presente articolo si prefigge l’obiettivo di analizzare l’effettiva portata del Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014, che è stato accusato di fornire nuovi poteri ai servizi segreti per controllare specialmente le società straniere (ponendo, quindi, problemi di bilanciamento fra sicurezza, diritto alla riservatezza e libertà d’impresa), mentre nelle intenzioni dichiarate dal Governo si tratterebbe semplicemente di chiarire poteri preesistenti.

Many new media technologies, such as the internet, serve both as a tool for organizing public commons and as a tool for surveilling private lives. This paper addresses the manner in which such technological innovations have enabled a dramatically expanded market for public policy opinion data, and explores the potential role of that market in facilitating panoptic regimes of both private and state surveillance. Whereas information about public policy opinion used to be highly reductive, expensive to collect, and restricted to a limited number of powerful political actors, today it is much less expensive, highly nuanced, and widely available. Pollsters now also have the ability to extrapolate political information from our commercial and noncommercial activities. We investigate the work of two organizations, a public policy polling firm named Grapevine Polling, and an advocacy consulting firm named United Campaigns. We find that both the increased sophistication of these firms' methods and the reduced cost of increasingly personalized data together have the potential to undermine the very public sphere that digital media were hoped to reinvigorate. Moreover, overlapping state and private demand for the products of such pollsters reflects the extent to which politics and the marketplace are increasingly intertwined and inseparable under the current articulation of democracy in the US.

Field-X was first discovered in 1979, comprising of saturated oil reservoirs with several shallower non-associated gas reservoirs. Field-X is currently producing from several oil producers. X8 well was recently drilled, completed, and produce from A and B reservoirs. However, 5 months later, the oil rate has been reduced by half with gas oil ratio (GOR) increased up to 5 times. Consequently, the well had to be shut-in due to reservoir management plan (RMP) violation. X9 well was drilled and completed, but 5 years later the well started experiencing the sustained production casing pressure (PCP) and was forced to shut-in in the following year with the locked-in potential of both A and B reservoirs.

To diagnose the root cause of high GOR (HGOR) in X8 well and sustained PCP in X9 well, the Spectral Noise Log (SNL) was deployed. The main advantage of utilizing SNL is its capability of detecting fluid movement behind tubing and casing. High differential pressure creates lots of fluid movement, which generates higher noise amplitude. Meanwhile, smaller pores or leaks generate higher frequency noise that can be easily picked up by SNL.

SNL tool was run in flowing condition for X8 well and the results indicated the HGOR zones were mainly contributed by the shallower B05 sand which was flowing through the leaked 4-1/2″ liner packer. Temperature deflections also indicated that the liner packer seal was leaking and B05 reservoir was contributing to the production. The liner packer leak and B05 reservoir flow would not have been detected by conventional production logging tools as the flow was happening beyond the tubing and casing. For X9well, SNL was run in the wellbore whilst pumping water via annulus, through the leaks and flowing back up the tubing. Three tubing leaks were successfully detected from the SNL run, whereas previous conventional noise log only managed to detect 2 leaks. It is possible that the third small leak was very small, hence the conventional tool was unable to detect it.

X8 well successfully back online with 8.4% rate increase than last production with GOR reduced back to initial GOR and X9 well successfully back online as per last production rate. The liner packers which are nonpermanent barriers for reservoir isolation and allocation can be validated, moreover, verifying that tubing leakage is mainly contributed by tubing joints, which can be used as the main input in tubing materials selection in the future.

Well integrity issues can cause significant loss of production, oil spill or worst case, even loss of lives. Proper selection in data acquisition tools helps to accurately diagnose well integrity issues that can be swiftly addressed. In the low oil price environment, skimming down on data acquisition costs may not uncover the true underlying well issues or reservoir issues, but might jeopardize future projects to be under taken in years to come.

Keywords: Noise Logging, well integrity, high GOR, tubing leak

Background: The neonatal mortality rate (NMR) is considered amongst the most important socioeconomic and health indicators of a community development. Globally, it has been reported that the daily mortality rate during the neonatal period is much higher (30-fold) than the post-neonatal period. In the Eastern Mediterranean Region, about 40% of the under-5 mortality occurs in the neonatal period. This study aimed to explore the association between the socioeconomic , demographic and perinatal care related factors, and the neonatal mortality in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. Methods: The secondary data for the 1990 to 2013 on neonatal mortality rates, socio-demographic, socioeconomic and health factors were extracted from official websites, including united nations children's fund (UNICEF), world health organization (WHO), and united nations educational, scientific and cultural organization (UNESCO). Data were collected using the following keywords: 'neonatal mortality',...

The digital world is a field of information and entertainment for users and a field of extraction of the most valuable good of recent years: personal data. How much of a threat to privacy is the collection and processing of data by third parties and what do people think about it? On the occasion of the extensive methods of surveilling citizens and collecting their data, this study attempts to contribute new empirical data evidence from the international research on the use of the Internet by the World Internet Project on attitudes and behaviors of individuals regarding online privacy and surveillance. The aim is to determine whether and to what extent the recorded concerns about the violation of privacy intersects with a growing acceptance of its very absence.

Sürveyans sistemleri ve filyasyon çalışmalarının, bulaşıcı hastalıkları önleme, tedavi ve korumada hayati bir fonksiyonu vardır. Sürveyans vakalara ilişkin ya da problemlere yönelik öncelikler belirleme, amaç, strateji ve hastalığa yönelik kontrolü ve önlemeyi sağlar. Hastalığın dağılımını, klinik seyrini izlemeye fırsat sağlar. Filyasyon çalışmaları ise bireyleri bulaşıcı hastalıklara bağlı olarak ortaya çıkabilecek sakatlık ve ölümden korurken; devletler ise bulaşıcı hastalıklara karşı bireyleri koruma, önleme ve tedaviye yönelik masraflarını oldukça azaltmış olur. Bu nedenle sağlık sistemleri sürveyans sistemi için ortak bir dil ilan edip, filyasyon çalışmalarını bu sistem içerisinde zenginleştirmelidir. Sürveyansa ek olarak erken uyarı sistemi kurulması gerekmektedir. Erken uyarının faydalı olabilmesi için sağlam bir yanıt sistemi ile yedeklemek gerekir. Hem yerel ve ulusal sistemleri beslemek ve koordine etmek hem de müdahale kapasitesi sağlamak için her ülkedeki sağlığa ilişkin altyapı gözden geçirilmelidir. . Surveillance systems and radiation studies have a vital function in preventing, treating and protecting infectious diseases. Surveillance allows setting priorities for cases or problems, purpose, strategy, and control and prevention of disease. It provides an opportunity to monitor the distribution and clinical course of the disease. While radiation studies protect individuals from disability and death that may occur due to infectious diseases; states, on the other hand, significantly reduce the costs of protecting, preventing and treating individuals against infectious diseases. For this reason, health systems should declare a common language for the surveillance system and enrich the fillation studies within this system. An early warning system needs to be established in addition to surveillance. For early warning to be useful, it is necessary to back up with a robust response system. Health infrastructure in each country should be reviewed to both nurture and co-ordinate local and national systems and provide response capacity.

This article explores how Internet surveillance in the name of counter-terrorism challenges privacy. In the Part II, the article analyses the international dimension of counter-terrorism measures and the conceptualisation of data protection and privacy in the European Union, the United States of America and Australia. Part III compares the different concepts of data protection and privacy, and explores the prospects of an international legal framework for the protection of privacy. Part IV concludes that work on international data protection and privacy standards, while urgently needed, remains a long-term vision with particular uncertain prospects as far as anti-terrorism and national security measures are concerned.

...One of the beautiful aspects of the American judicial system is the notion that defendants are ‘innocent until proven guilty,’ that it is the responsibility of the State to prove guilt, not the accused to prove innocence.  This places the burden of proof on the one doing the jailing and not the other way around.  Now while such a judicially-intentional design is often perverted through methods such as the Grand Jury indictments of social movement participants, for the majority of everyday criminals, one enters the court room with the presumption of innocence.  While it is thus the responsibility of the accused to solely prevent the demonstration of their guilt, when in the criminal planning stage, with provocateurs and clandestine agents afoot, it becomes the responsibility of underground conspirators to not only prevent the State from demonstrating their guilt, but also one must prevent the police from forcing their hand.  The lesson here is simple, while you can prevent self-incrimination in a court of law, in the court of dissenting, revolutionary street politics, you DO NOT have the right to avoid self-incrimination, and in fact, great powers may have mobilized against your self-interest to prove just that.

One day after the 9/11 attacks, Congressman Greg Walden stated in a speech to Congress that the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), a movement that has never injured or killed a single person, was a threat “no less heinous then what we saw occur yesterday here in Washington and New York.” In the months and years that followed, the ELF, Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and affiliated movements of saboteurs were re-cast by the State as “terrorists,” and according to the FBI, the “number one domestic terrorist threat.” Activists convicted of releasing mink, filming inside of battery farms and picketing University vivisectors were touted in the media and in courtrooms as terrorists. Some were convicted under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, and others, indicted in grand conspiracies and maliciously sentenced with “Terrorism Enhancements” added to their jail terms. Within this logic, 9/11 opened up a new era of rhetoric, one in which those opposing Statecraft were considered domestic terrorists despite consistently avoiding violence in their methods. In one swift motion it became an act of terrorism to oppose State policy. Prior to the attacks of 9/11, and the subsequent Global War on Terror, it would not have been rhetorically possible to label a Facebook blogger posting videos of animal abuse as “terrorism.” Prior to the reconstituting of the cultural values of the nation, it would not have been possible to call the release of birds “terrorism,” nor would it have been viable to label the clandestine perpetrators of these crimes a “serious domestic terrorist threat.”

Environment is protected from radioactive release to prevent the emission, taking socio-economic factors into account using best available technique and technologies, using safer alternatives and obtaining payment from polluter. In all these activities public dose limit are very important to protect man or other non-human species in the environment.In this paper after given a brief introduction of environmenta surveilance programme in Turkey and criteria to protect the human and non-human species from radioactive release (both acute and chronic) will be mentioned