Presentation delivered to the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL), on 21 March 2017.

1. Blurred lines: Surveillance and
ethics
Sanjana Hattotuwa

2. –Time Berners-Lee, 12 March 2017
Political advertising online needs transparency and
understanding
It’s too easy for misinformation to spread on the web
We’ve lost control of our personal data

4. Youyou Wu and Michal Kosinski

6. Post-privacy world?

7. Everyone a suspect

8. Investigatory Powers Act 2016
or Snoopers’ Charter

10. • ISPs and mobile phone providers will keep a record of every website
visit of anyone using a British network for up to a year. This includes
sites visited through mobile browsers and phone apps (like
Facebook) - but not individual web pages.
• The data will be stored by the network that collected it, but police
and many government departments will be able to use a central
search tool to find and access those records.
• Searches of that data will be conducted at the discretion of the
police and will be overseen by a specially trained supervising officer
only. Weak judicial oversight.

11. Intermediary liability

15. Beyond oversight

17. 15th March 2014, email from a purported friend of Director of
Intelligence Bureau
Military Intelligence, Sri Lanka Police, CID.

19. –William Gibson
“The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.”

20. Data is the new oil

21. Informed consent is increasing
a myth

22. Surveillance the new norm

23. Encryption vs. surveillance.
Targeted ops.

25. e-NIC and revolving doors

28. Intelligence in the cloud

29. Convenience cloaks siphoning

31. when does intelligence turn into surveillance?
how to maintain control over privacy within ecosystem of competing owners, location sensors, proxy indicators,
sentient nodes, ambient observation, pervasive automation

33. A pawn in someone’s Matrix?

35. thank you