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This article talks about the want for greater government surveillance after the Paris attacks. It mentions that since Edward Snowden released information about the NSA's digital surveillance power, a lot of measures have been taken to restrict government surveillance. However, since the Paris attacks, the US government is pushing to bring that power back.

What are the mechanisms behind surveillance? How precisely are people surveilled in the US?

An article debating security/surveillance vs. privacy post-Snowden leaks, written fall 2014 for Stanford Lawyer Magazine

Discusses the growth and legal rights of video surveillance in schools. This article contains multiple instances where court cases ruled that there was not a reasonable expectation of privacy.

by Christy Hickman, staff counsel Members often ask whether a school district violates their right to privacy by using video camera surveillance or video recordings of evaluative observations. It is easy to understand the growth of video surveillance in schools, especially with the onslaught of on-campus criminal behavior and the horrendous episodes of violence that we hear of all too frequently.

This is the results of a Pew Research survey in May (of 2015) regarding Americans' opinions of the NSA, surveillance, national security, etc. This could be useful in the security vs. privacy paper, to look at the public opinion on these issues.

Today's New York Times features a debate of sorts over the value of increased surveillance after the Paris attacks. Click through for five different views on this complex issue.

And here's the collection of tweets from me, @maddagaska, and Cory Doctor about the choice of terms "security" and "surveillance."

Video camera surveillance, Biometric data collection (fingerprints), RFID Tags (monitors movement to within centimeters), Galvanic Skin Response Bracelet (monitors a child's physiological responses)

"The Domestic Surveillance Directorate - If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." Should the government have such free reign over our personal information, or should we be able to keep our data encrypted and hidden from the government to respect our personal rights?

How will mass surveillance increase in the future?

How effective has mass surveillance been in preventing terror attacks since 9/11?

To any future college students: Be careful of what you type on the internet or reveal about yourself in an online forum. Despite the shocking revelations of the size and scope of the government's surveillance programs revealed by Edward Snowden, the majority of Americans don't understand the kind of information the government has on them, have taken few steps to protect their online data, and believe that such programs don't go far enough in tackling terrorism. Ironically, these same Americans also overwhelmingly believe that consumers have lost protection of their data to companies who have used their clients' privacy as a commodity. I would advise you to be careful of what you post online, and follow a few steps, such as passwords, encryption, and clearing your cookies, to help protect at least some of your data online and allow you to remain private. These programs continue to this day, and it's important that you protect what little privacy remains.

What are the mechanisms behind surveillance? How precisely are people surveilled in the US?

Facial scanning isn't quite to the point where it could be reliably implemented in a school, but it's not far off either.

Quote: What you are looking at is one of the many undersea cables that carries inside it, to put it simply, the magic of the Internet. This particular cable, which runs aground on the coast of Florida, has been tapped by the NSA according to Paglen's research. Paglen, an artist who has been documenting the physical footprint of surveillance for years, got scuba-certified in order to go diving "at several locations off the coast of Florida," he says, to find and photograph the cables.

This is a PDF file of a chapter taken from a book that contains essays on many issues that arise from "big data." This chapter specifically pertains to our privacy versus security debate because it provides reasons as to why bulk data collection does not work as well as alternative options to mass surveillance.

Because Snowden wrote it