Trust and Transparency in an Age of Surveillance

Paweł Laidler, Ph.D. is Professor of Political Science at the Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.Lora Anne Viola, Ph.D. is Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Politics Department at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin.

• Introduction1. On the Relationship Between Trust, Transparency, and Surveillance Part I: Rethinking Transparency’s Relationship to Power and Domination2. The Limits of Transparency as a Tool for Regulating Surveillance: A Comparative Study of the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany 3. A Neo-Republican Critique of Transparency: The Chilling Effects of Publicizing Power 4. The Dynamics of Imposed Transparency and its Role in Deep Social Conflicts 5. Classifying and Dividing Labor: The Political Economy of Racializing Surveillance Part II: Transparency and Trust as Institutional Constraints and Critical Praxis6. Secrecy Versus Transparency in the US National Security Surveillance State 7. Secret Surveillance in Poland After Snowden: Between Secrecy and Transparency 8. Legal Safeguards and Oversight Innovations for Bulk Surveillance: An International Comparative Analysis 9. Transparency and Surveillance of End Users on Social Media Platforms: A View of Structural Economic Factors Part III: Sources of Trust and Virtues of Mistrust in an Age of Surveillance10. Trust and Surveillance: An Odd Couple or a Perfect Pair? 11. Trustworthy Humans and Machines: Vulnerable Trustors and the Need for Trustee Competence, Integrity, and Benevolence in Digital Systems 12. Why a Militantly Democratic Lack of Trust in State Surveillance can Enable Better and More Democratic Security Outlook13. Surveillance, Transparency, and Trust: Critical Challenges from the COVID-19 Pandemic