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 * 1.7 Surveillance **

** Surveillance ** is the use of IT to monitor the actions of people. For example, monitoring may be used to track, record and assess employees’ performance. It can be used to support claims for promotion or to ensure that employees follow the organization’s internet policy appropriately.   The Net allows both. The users can roam freely to their discretion where and what they want to put onto the web. It is just a matter of a country censoring the content, or the user self-censoring what is to be put on the web. Also, the governments and businesses both can use the Net to their advantage. The government can learn and find out various information of various individuals and trends of the public through the Net's social networking websites and other portal that have discussion between citizens themselves. Business are able to keep track of trends to see what is happening, such as the stock prices to what people like to eat, listen to, what they like to use. Thus the businesses are able to stay in business a little easier through knowing the information from the web. The businesses can also advertise themselves through the net, and that way, it is actually faster than having actual offline campaigns and advertisement. Therefore, the net can allow us both. We are free to use it more than let it control us. It’s just a matter of fact that higher class society, social ranking, or economic status-ed has more chances to controlling the net due to their connections with the higher ups. Yet, censorship and surveillance is everywhere, and thus doesn’t allow absolute freedom. || 1.7_surveillance 2.6_pol_gov 3.4_internet || The people used voice telephone to communicate with each other while the net was down. Amateur radio channels and virtual private networks and proxies were provided and used by Egyptian activists in order to communicate with each other. || 1.7_surveillance 2.6_gov_control_use_info 3.4_internet ||
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 * Date || Article || Comments || Tags ||
 * Feb. 2011 || Book Review - The Net Delusion - By Evgeny Morozov - NYTimes.com || 1. Does the Net allow more freedom or is it a tool for governments and businesses to control us?
 * Feb. 2011 || Egypt's net ruled by phone, not kill switch > DDoS > Vulnerabilities & Exploits > News ... || 1. What did people use when the net was down?