Surveillance and identity: conceptual framework and formal models
- Submitting institution
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Swansea University / Prifysgol Abertawe
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 37276
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1093/cybsec/tyx010
- Title of journal
- Journal of Cybersecurity
- Article number
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- First page
- 145
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 3
- ISSN
- 2057-2085
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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- Citation count
- 0
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- As software become omnipresent in our lives, formal methods are needed to strengthen social analysis and theorising about human issues. This paper is the first to use formal methods to create a social theory for surveillance studies. The methods prove that: (i) radically different forms of surveillance have a common structure that can be unified by formal models, and (ii) finding and sorting identities into categories are fundamental in conceptualizing all forms of surveillance. To analyse the role of data in establishing personal identity, it uses abstract data types to formalise their creation, provenance and transformation.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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