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Welcome Inside the Panopticon

The panopticon is the most popular metaphor for our increasingly surveilled world in the 21st Century. The panopticon first conceived of by Jeremy Bentham in 1787 as a prison tower capable of watching over an entire cell block with one guard. The concept was expanded upon and Michel Foucault in the 1970’s and serves as a metaphor for the all seeing capabilities of the surveillance apparatus. What is often lost is that while the watched never know if and when they are being watched; the watcher can only truly ‘see’ let alone act on, so much at one time. Here I plan to show case the many security vulnerabilities of modern society from the inside out.

Ryan Mason studied Security and Intelligence & Criminology at The Ohio State University. She holds ICA International Diploma in Financial Crime Prevention issued in conjunction with the Alliance Manchester Business School and is currently enrolled in a MSc. Security Studies program at Liverpool John Moores University. She has attended hundreds of hours worth of training conducted by local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies in the areas of security, investigations, and intelligence gathering & analysis. Ryan currently holds the designations of certified fraud examiner (CFE) through the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and Certified Protection Professional (CPP) through ASIS International. She has held positions in the corporate security divisions of several Fortunate 500 corporations and specializes in complex fraud investigations.