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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Spying"”.
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Smartphone Spying: Uncovering Hidden Dangers
The smartphone’s potent dependency, hyper-connectivity and distracting habits are changing the world at a rapid pace by tracking movement locations or extracting private contact data and ultimately impacting personal privacy. Attention-grabbing stimuli, surveillance ability, software applications …
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Spying: A Normative Account of the Second Oldest Profession
… the urgent ethical problems raised by government spying. It asks and answers three principal questions: What is spying? What principles should regulate government spying? And how can government agents be constrained to follow these principles?</p><p>The first chapter takes up the conceptual …
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The Secret History of the English Spy: 1674-1800
… of the eighteenth century, arguing for spying's ideological transition within the cultural and literary imagination from a profession to a way of being. At stake in "The Secret History of the English Spy: 1674-1800" is the idea that surveillance, spying, and state secrecy inform and …
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Hell's Black Intelligencers: Representing Clandestine Labor on the Early Modern Stage
… of social and cultural capital. Thinking through spying in this light, this dissertation explores how playwrights represent these service relationships which fall outside of systems of patronage-driven reward. Focusing on the labor of clandestine laborers, a category which I theorize as kinds of …
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Parody and the pen: Pippi Longstocking, Harriet M. Welsch, and Flavia de Luce as disrupters of space, language, and the male gaze
… era texts. Pippi’s strength and humor, Harriet’s spying and writing, and Flavia’s scientific expertise and detectival work illustrate their ability to bend gender conventions and defy authorities and institutions that seek to tame them. With their infiltration of spaces, fragmentation of the male …
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Patriotism Among Muslim American Opinion Leaders
… proposals, the Patriot Act, the NDAA, the NYPD's spying on MSAs, and the increase of hate crimes occurring at varying places of worship. This study explores how messages of Americanness and patriotism are transmitted from opinion leaders to their followers among Muslim Americans. Through …
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Radio Frequency Identification : regulating information privacy protection
… the information for marketing, tracking, or even spying, numerous consumer groups are spearheading efforts to ensure that RFID does not breach their privacy rights. While there are some privacy laws regulating specific aspects of commerce, there are no laws which currently apply to the collection …
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Reusing a robot's behavioral mechanisms to model and manipulate human mental states
… has value, competing teams gain advantage by spying on and deceiving an opposing team while cooperating teammates can help the team by secretly communicating new information. For a robot to thrive in this environment it must be able to perform actions in a manner to deceive opposing agents as …
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The origins of state security screening in Canada
… about internal dissent, not about foreign spying, was responsible for this new security intelligence development. This work also reexamines the Canadian government's supervision of its primary security intelligence agency, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Contrary to the widely held view …
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The perception and fears of sharing personal digital data in digital public space
… revealed the National Security Agency (NSA) was spying on US citizens, the consequence of sharing personal information has led to a proliferation of leaks, thefts, and growing anxieties amongst the public, resulting in a greater awareness of privacy concerns and wariness about divulging personal …
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The behavioural function of pheromones in crayfish
… with males detecting female receptivity by spying on hormones and metabolites released with threat signals. Physiological indicators of reception included a brief cardiac and ventilatory arrest followed by an increase in rate. Both behavioural and physiological responses formed the basis of …
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Social paranoia and absurdist fiction in Cold War America and Soviet Russia: a comparative study
… and explores their preoccupation with issues of spying, infiltration and conspiracy. This thesis thus emphasises how these authors counter simplistic notions of Cold War Otherness by revealing two nations possessed by a similar sense of vulnerability and insecurity. Furthermore, this thesis …
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Intelligent video surveillance
… weapon. Additionally they can be used for spying that imposes a threat to a private life. The autonomous car driving systems are now impossible without applying machine vision methods. The industrial applications require automatic quality control, including non-destructive methods and …