Resolution resolved: The United States federal government should substantially curtail its domestic surveillance. Violations

EXAMPLES OF SURVEILLANCE

Surveillance can include review of personal data

Constitution Committee 9 Constitution Committee, House of Lords, Parliament, UK 2009, Session 2008-09 Publications on the internet, Constitution Committee - Second Report, Surveillance: Citizens and the State Chapter 2 http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200809/ldselect/ldconst/18/1804.htm

USES OF PERSONAL DATA

26. The term "surveillance" is sometimes applied to the collection and processing of personal data. The combined term "dataveillance" covers "the systematic use of personal data systems in the investigation or monitoring of the actions or communications of one or more persons".[34] JUSTICE suggested that a common feature of surveillance was "the use of personal data for the purpose of monitoring, policing or regulating individual conduct." (p 109, note 20) Dr David Murakami Wood, Lecturer at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and representative of the Surveillance Studies Network, said that the use of definitional extremes—which regard all (or at least all unwanted or unjustified) information gathering as surveillance—was unhelpful. He argued that "information gathering with the intent to influence and control aspects of behaviour or activities of individuals or groups would be our working definition." (Q 37)

27. The term "data use" includes those forms of personal data collection and processing relevant to surveillance as defined in the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) and the 1995 European Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC (the Directive) that the DPA transposes into UK law. These documents state that the "'processing of personal data' … shall mean any operation or set of operations which is performed upon personal data, whether or not by automatic means, such as collection, recording, organisation, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, blocking, erasure or destruction".[35]