Surveillance today relies on the Data; today the talk is of Artificial Intelligence digital infrastructure that has enabled large- (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) and their scale, fast, distributed computer systems of relation to “smart” technologies and the every stripe, and on the active participation Internet of Things. [...] Research on these is thus increasingly urgent, both for grasping State and corporate surveillance of citizens the realities of a digital society and for and consumers is constantly expanding in responding with appropriate strategies to Canada and around the world. [...] Neither was As Sachil Singh observes, “Some of the main much public attention paid to the targeting of concerns with this approach are that the purpose ordinary homes by commercial entities, when the of technological implementation is unrefined, the domestic space was conscripted for employment, methods of implementation are unclear, and the entertainment, schooling and shopping. [...] They have a long history in areas from security and policing to industrial relations and military development and marketing, as shown in Kirstie Ball and Laureen Snider’s collection on The Surveillance-Industrial Complex.34 The rapid rise of public-private partnerships (P3s), encouraged by neoliberalism, from the 1990s, also involved surveillance, for example in the development of CCTV in the UK,. [...] The social and political benefits of the digital realm will not be fully realized without significant changes, including in the awareness, knowledgeability and commitment of its participants, of all ages and in all regions of Canada.
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