Relationships between Businesses and Government

RECAP FOCUS: — Relationships between Businesses and Government; Business: IBM, etc. (see legacy during holocaust); Government: AIVD, MIVD, EUROPOL, (executive entities); How does the government collect data and what are they selecting? Where does privacy interference become a physical object or process? What does it look like? — Means of Privacy in NL: Why do so many people don’t mind surveillance? What does privacy mean in the Netherlands? How much of this social behaviour can be backtracked on Protestant Belief, Reformation (being a “good person” and “do not hide anything”)? Compare Social Behaviour (Protestant / Catholic) on the notion of privacy; (individual / collective) (giraffe / lions) How is the concept of the family / the peer related to privacy? — Distance to the Censor: TBD TASKS: — send Mail to Ruben Pater, ask for … (TBD) Exhibition Rotterdam "Change the system" — how to visualise Time Please can each group think carefully about how he could help you, and prepare two questions for Maarten (anmnesty) for tomorrow. Be ready to email the questions by the end of tomorrows class, so that we give Maarten some time to prepare before Monday. — go to IBM Netherlands, ask for access to archive; newspaper clippings as proof; IMPORTANT: play stupid maybe; ask what they think surveillance can do for society — go to security service organisations, ask where they get their data from; ask what they think surveillance can do for society

DATABASES: — CBS; Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek — GTD; Global Terrorism Database

POSSIBLE OUTCOME (open): — information architecture > data visualisation — architecture of surveillance > moving image, stills (AIVD, MIVD, The Big Ear, Europol) — collection of books / documents