Surveillance Culture and Fundamental Rights: The Excluded and the Beneficiaries

Abstract

Surveillance has progressively grown in social life in the 20th and 21st centuries. It happened  partly because of the adoption of multiple sensors that can extract, collect and analyze an  enormous volume of data. This expressive data volume, variety, and processing velocity are known as big data. The increasing adoption of big data and models based on algorithmic  intelligence has a massive impact on society because of its dissemination among social spheres  through relations between the public and private sectors. This paper aims to discuss surveillance  culture and its consequences on fundamental rights such as privacy and freedom of speech. In  addition, it is intended to debate the excluded and the beneficiaries of a surveillance society.  The methodological approach is the literature review. The conclusion relies on the need for  intercultural ethics to strengthen the right to privacy to guarantee not only itself but multiple  fundamental rights nowadays.