Dystopia

About: Dystopia is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2146 publications have been published within this topic receiving 15163 citations. The topic is also known as: cacotopia.

Minority Report e o governo da distopia algorítmica

Abstract: With the purpose of reflecting about ideas on surveillance and free-will in the face of the digital technology of the last two decades, we intend to analyze the crossway of ambivalences condensed in the Pre-Crime system created in Minority Report, a short-story by Philip K Dick published in 1956 and screen played by Seven Spielberg in 2002, as a literary figuration of impasses also conceptually captured in notions such as “surveillance capitalism” (ZUBOFF, 2019) and “algorithmic governmentality” (ROUVROY E BERNS, 2013). Encircled by the conceptual labyrinth derived from a new and dynamic landscape, we turn our gaze to science fiction in search of consistent exercises in speculative imagination which try to map, through the construction of futuristic fictional universes alternative to our reality, some of the dilemmas which constitute our present experience. In this way, we intend to read the short-story Minority Report as a formal translation of impasses and as a fictional construction in which utopia and dystopia can be sides of the same coin (LARREGUE, WANNYN e DARTIGUES, 2019).

Facial Recognition for Preventive Purposes: The Human Rights Implications of Detecting Emotions in Public Spaces

Abstract: Police departments are increasingly relying on surveillance technologies to tackle public security issues in smart cities. Automated facial recognition is deployed in public spaces for real-time identification of suspects and warranted individuals. In some cases, law enforcement is going even further by exploiting also emotion recognition technologies. In preventive operations indeed, emotion facial recognition (EFR) is being used to infer individuals’ inner affective states from traits like facial muscle movements. In this way, law enforcement aims to obtain insightful hints on unknown persons acting suspiciously in public or strategic venues (e.g. train stations, airports). While the employment of such tools still seems to be relegated to dystopian scenarios, it is already a reality in some parts of the world. Hence, there emerges a need to explore their compatibility with the European human rights framework. The Chapter undertakes this task and examines whether and how EFR can be considered compliant with the rights to privacy and data protection, the freedom of thought and the presumption of innocence.