Skip Navigation
Mechanica
Exploring Ethics
 the science and ethics forum
An ongoing series of free, public events jointly sponsored by the Ethics Center and the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center. Go to the full schedule of events at the Fleet.
Surveillance and Sensors: Who's watching whom?
See a flyer for this event.

 to a pre-forum interview with Tom Fudge and his guests Todd Brown, Mohan Trivedi, Stuart Henry, and Kevin Keenan, "Do You Care Who's Watching You?", KPBS These Days, July 31, 2008.

Date: August 6, 2008, 5:30 - 7 p.m.
Location: Reuben H. Fleet Science Center
Organizers: Mike Kalichman, Lawrence Hinman, & Stuart Henry, The Ethics Center
Jeffrey Kirsch, Lynne Kennedy, & Amanda Lincoln, Reuben H. Fleet Science Center
Program:
Advancements in camera, video, and sensor technology have led a variety of public and private organizations to track our movements and activities. Anonymous technicians are documenting our identity, constructing our profiles, logging our Internet use, monitoring our preferences, peeping in on our purchases and locating our precise behavior, whereabouts, and relationships. As the technology proliferates, our privacy and our behavior are being subject to view and control without our knowledge. In Britain there is now 1 camera for every 13 citizens.
 Surveillance and Sensors
  • Are we gaining anything in exchange for this loss of privacy and freedom?
  • Are we more secure or more vulnerable?
  • Who decides how much surveillance is too much or too little and how is the balance achieved?
  • Can we do better or is the specter of “1984” the inevitable reality of the 21st century?
The panelists included:
• Kevin Keenan, ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties
• Mohan Trivedi, UC San Diego Computer Vision and Robotics Research Laboratory
• Marcus Nieto, California Research Bureau

Moderator: Stuart Henry, Executive Committee, Ethics Center
Contact: Diane Ballard