UGS 2260 - BlockU: Privacy & Surveillance

We now live in an era of around-the-clock surveillance where our daily communications, activities and movements are tracked, stored and analyzed by government and businesses on a scale never before imagined. The digitization of information, the ascendance of Big Data analytics, the growth of behavioral marketing and the increasingly sophisticate tracking technologies have combined to fundamentally alter our concept of personal privacy. If you want to understand and explore the privacy challenges of the Digital Age then this Block U is for you.