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SUMMARY:Surveillance in Speculative Fiction: Have Our Artists Been Suffici
 ently Imaginative? - Roger Clarke\, University of New South Wales
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CONTACT:Joseph Bonneau
DESCRIPTION:There are many variants of surveillance\, many pitfalls\, and 
 potentially serious consequences for 'good people' as well as 'the baddies
 '.  Fiction-writers of all kinds have taken advantage of the enormous scop
 e this provides.  Writers of speculative fiction have been running ahead o
 f reality for decades\;  but they need to display more imagination\, becau
 se reality keeps catching up with them.  This paper reviews speculative fi
 ction genres and imaginations\, and uses them as a means of identifying se
 veral different interpretations of what the surveillance epidemic means fo
 r privacy and human freedom.\n\nRoger Clarke is a Canberra-based eBusiness
  consultant\, and a Visiting Professor in Cyberspace Law & Policy at UNSW 
 in Sydney\, and in Computer Science at the Australian National University.
   He has conducted dataveillance research since the early 1980s\, and has 
 been active in privacy advocacy even longer than that.  He is currently Ch
 air of the Australian Privacy Foundation.
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