Martin Eiermann

Martin Eiermann is a sociologist whose research and teaching focus on the politics of surveillance and the sociology of algorithms. He is currently writing a book on privacy and the growth of the American state during the Progressive Era. Follow him on Twitter @martineiermann.

Privacidade, saúde pública e a pandemia de Covid-19

O que devemos evitar é a disseminação das lógicas de emergência no tempo e no espaço, e não a redefinição da privacidade em si. Español English

By Martin Eiermann

/ 31 Mar 2020

Privacidade, saúde pública e a pandemia de Covid-19

Privacidad, salud pública y pandemia de la Covid-19

De lo que tenemos que protegernos es de que las lógicas de emergencia se prolonguen a través del tiempo y el espacio, no de la redefinición de la privacidad en sí misma. Português English

por Martin Eiermann

/ 31 Mar 2020

Privacidad, salud pública y pandemia de la Covid-19

Privacy, public health and the pandemic

What we have to guard against is the diffusion of emergency logics across time and space, not the redefinition of privacy per se.

By Martin Eiermann

/ 30 Mar 2020

Surveillance: finding the culprit

We scrutinize the state for its Orwellian ambitions, but not the structures that render them feasible. Privacy debates have engaged with issues of political power and sensationalist culture, with little attention paid to the third factor – the economic context.

By Martin Eiermann

/ 11 Feb 2014

Local surveillance since 2001

The almost exclusive focus on the NSA obscures the degree to which surveillance has become integrated into almost every level of government. For most of us, the first point of contact with the surveillance state isn’t the NSA – it’s the local police department.

By Martin Eiermann

/ 11 Jan 2014

Turns of the century

Instead of experiencing a proliferation of terrorism, we are witnesses to a proliferation of resistance against the standard economic model of the last sixty years. It’s an endogenous shock, not an exogenous one. The socio-economic contract has been broken.

By Martin Eiermann

/ 27 Jun 2013

An unholy alliance

Private companies and intelligence services have entered an unholy alliance: The former collect vast amounts of private data, the latter scoop it up without much oversight.

By Martin Eiermann

/ 12 Jun 2013