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The networked effect of global
information systems connected via
a myriad of things now hardwired
into the very architecture we inhabit
has been instrumental in shaping
how we now interact with each other,
and more importantly how we have
become enslaved to the very organi-
zations who set this all up in the first
place. We have a paradoxical habi-
tation where on the one hand we
celebrate the speed and efficiency
of news and activity that is delivered
by the system, yet on the other hand
we recoil at the lack of privacy and
autonomy we once had before that
system took it all away.
The ambivalence and apathy
we have adopted as to the per-
meance of this oversight from
so many interconnected sourc-
es is probably the most dan-
gerous of all human behaviors
of the greater public.
In an Australian Aboriginal con-
text, across rural and remote com-
munities, and likewise across every
single community in Australia, there
is in some way a dependence on this
network of networks, this nature of
gaze through the very technologies
we once thought were simply con-
nections of convenience. The fact
is that we all travel between centers
of human habitation, fill our cars up
with fuel under surveillance, shop
under surveillance, interact in public
spaces under surveillance, connect
with and date others under surveil-
lance, and therein lies the paradox
of it all.
Surveillance is not just the cameras
that inhabit these physical spaces, it is
in fact the hybrid of networked, elec-
tronic systems and connected devices
that all combine to form a meshed
triangulation of our activity no matter
where we are located. Surveillance
cameras are simply the visible form
of this oppression, a physical moniker

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for what we are losing on a daily ba-
sis as we agree to give up our rights
to privacy in a trade-off for conve-
nience. Body Worn Cameras (BWC)
now touted to be a fully back-to-base,
artificial intelligence enhanced exten-
sion of this surveillance network, and
with a collapse of competition for en-
gineers and data management into
one United States provider, our Aus-
tralian municipal, community, state,
and national "whereabouts" risks be-
coming an extension of this already
totalitarian regime.

privacy conditions. These privacy
conditions, or "pop ups," are often
never read understood, or consid-
ered seriously, and users instead we
simply click "yes" and proceed to
use that application. In most cases
users are unaware that the applica-
tion continues to track location, logs
patterns of interactions between
applications, and even tracks who
we are in contact with and why.
We do all of this without any
sense of what the broader implica-
tions are for our privacy or person-
al security.
It is obvious that the prolifera-
tion of wearable technologies such
as mobile phones, GPS bracelets,
and exercise trackers all contribute
to the omniscience of unseen ser-
vice providers trawling through mas-
sive amounts of our private data to
make meaning from what we have
become blinded to.

Networked Gaze -
No More Borders
Of greatest concern is the fact that
the Internet has provided a use
case for the network of networks to
grow opportunities that can gaze
into other communities, to gather
intelligence, and by proximity to
create a deep distrust in each oth-
er's motivations.
This allows for global forces such
as the United States of America,
China, and Russia to be inserted
into the very communities we seek
to keep open and free of this tech-
nologically facilitated and reinforc-
ed distrust.
It also allows for gross breaches
of our civil liberties as Australian cit-
izens as the Australian Government
continues its oppression of Aborigi-
nal and of all Australian communi-
ties, under the two-year minimum
mandatory retention of data laws
that have recently been passed in
the Australian Senate [17].

"...The emphasis on punitive
law and order processes hasn't
been shown to work in addres-
sing youth crime and there's
no evidence to suggest it's
going to work here" [18].
According to the North Australian
Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA)
The Northern Territory has the
highest rate of youth incarceration
in Australia. In this region, three-
quarters of incarcerated youths are
detained on remand, meaning they
are awaiting court hearings or sen-
tencing. Of those about 95 percent
of those detained are of Indige-
nous background.
The frightening reality is that
GPS tracking and alcohol monitoring
bracelets are currently being worn
by 108 offenders across the NT serv-
ing out their sentence or on parole
or as a result of other community
based orders. The bracelet continu-
ally sends an electronic signal to
a manned control room service to

Smart Technologies
The reality is that we, in many of the
world's communities, from our beds,
as humans approaching a cyborg
state of being, now answer social
media requests, login to email sys-
tems, play games, and jostle through
sometimes hundreds of mobile
applications on smartphones, all of
which require an acceptance of
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