Framing the Pandemic and the Rise of the Digital Surveillance State

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Title

Framing the Pandemic and the Rise of the Digital Surveillance State

Subject

digital
surveillance
privacy
human rights
framing
regime types
democratic backsliding

Description

The pandemic caused by the SARS-COV-2 virus has provided a pretext formany countries of the world to extend executive powers, and their digitalsurveillance capacities in particular. Aiming to identify how differentregimes frame digital surveillance, this paper employs qualitative contentanalysis to compare the government framing of digital surveillance in India,Israel and Singapore. Although due to their different working dynamics,one would expect democracies and autocracies to frame digital surveillancein di!erent ways, our findings reveal an overlap between liberal and illiberalrhetoric across the cases and point to unexplored illiberal peculiaritieswithin the category of ‘democratic backsliders.’ We conclude by cautiouslyspeculating how heightened extents of digital surveillance and trackingmay become the new normal across regime types, and how governmentsmight exploit and recycle these same frames to justify digital surveillanceafter the COVID-19 crisis is over.

Creator

Maati, Ahmed
Švedkauskas, Žilvinas

Source

Czech Journal of International Relations; Vol. 55 No. 4 (2020); 48-71
2788-2993
2788-2985
10.32422/mv.55.4

Publisher

Institute of International Relations Prague

Date

2020-12-01

Rights

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0

Relation

Format

application/pdf
application/pdf

Language

eng

Type

info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Research Articles

Identifier

Citation

Ahmed Maati and Švedkauskas, Žilvinas, Framing the Pandemic and the Rise of the Digital Surveillance State, Institute of International Relations Prague, 2020, accessed November 22, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/3530

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