Doctoral Thesis
The politics of privacy protection: An analysis of resistance to metadata retention and encryption access laws
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Queensland University of Technology
2020
Abstract
This thesis examines the politics of privacy protection, focusing on how privacy advocates contest a moral equivalence at the core of the 'problem of going dark' – a claim that privacy-enhancing technologies enable the evasion of criminal investigations. Using the analytical constructs of signification, subjectivation, and identification, the thesis argues that Australian privacy advocates contest this claim via the articulation of a civic duty to disrupt the relations of domination that enable 'morally arbitrary' surveillance powers. Overall, the thesis argues this property of 'moral arbitrariness' is important for clarifying the distinction between advocating privacy protection and enabling methods of criminal evasion.
Details
- Title
- The politics of privacy protection: An analysis of resistance to metadata retention and encryption access laws
- Authors/Creators
- Michael Wilson - Murdoch University, School of Law and Criminology
- Contributors
- Erin O’Brien (Supervisor)Russell Hogg (Supervisor)Belinda Carpenter (Supervisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Queensland University of Technology; Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
- Identifiers
- 991005753935707891
- Resource Type
- Doctoral Thesis
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