Surveillance Watch: Implications for Human Rights in the Age of Surveillance

Isabella Pistaferri’s human rights capstone is composed of a three-episode podcast series titled “Surveillance Watch," dedicated to the examination of the affordances and costs of contemporary surveillance technologies as tools for gaining or maintaining societal power and control, as well as reinforcing or amplifying pre-existing and discriminatory hierarchies. Specifically, this podcast series contextualizes the application of surveillance technologies–including medical surveillance technologies, dynamic pricing, carceral surveillance, and more–within history to highlight the roots of these surveillance technologies in legacies that inherently violate human rights. Especially, this podcast relates contemporary surveillance technologies to the twentieth century legacies of fascism and eugenics. The content of this capstone is only accessible to users who have a valid Stanford SUNet ID.