Who’s watching? Surveillance, big data and applied ethics in the digital age

Adrian Walsh is Professor of Philosophy and Political Theory in the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of New England. He is also a Guest Professor in the Financial Ethics Research Group at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.Sandy Boucher is Lecturer in the Philosophy of Science at the University of New England. His research interests are mainly in the philosophy of biology and general philosophy of science, but he also works on issues in metaphilosophy and epistemology.

• Chapter 1. What Might Hannah Arendt Make of Big Data?: On Thinking, Natality, and Narrative with Big Data; Daniel Brennan Chapter 2. Big Data, scapegoat or hero – Ethical insights from René Girard; Howard Harris Chapter 3. China’s social credit system: How robust is the human rights critique?; Simon Burgess and Matthew Wysel Chapter 4. Libraries and Democracy in a Surveillance Culture; Caitlin Rowe Chapter 5. Abuse and Misuse of Substitute Decision-Making (SDM) Powers: Guardianship and Administration Law and Associated Governance Institutions in the Spotlight; Joseph Naimo Chapter 6. The comprehensive multidimensional legitimacy model: A methodology for applied ethics evaluation, institutional diagnosis, and practical reform development; Hugh Breakey