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Surveillance happens to all of us, everyday, as we walk beneath street cameras, swipe cards, surf the net. Agencies are using increasingly sophisticated computer systems Surveillance as Social Sorting proposes that surveillance is not simply a contemporary threat to individual freedoms, but that, more insidiously, it is a powerful means of creating and reinforcing long-term social differences. As practised today, it is actually a form of social sorting Bringing together contributions from North America and Europe, Surveillance as Social Sorting offers a innovative approach to the interaction between societies and their technologies. It looks at a number of examples in depth and will be an appropriate source of reference for a wide variety of courses.
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This book examines some crucial aspects of surveillance processes with a view to showing what constitutes them, why the growth of surveillance is accelerating and what is really at stake personally and politically. It scrutinises individual surveillance systems - for example CCTV, biometrics, intelligent transportation systems, smart cards, on-line profiling - and discusses their implications for our future.
Surveillance happens to all of us, everyday, as we walk beneath street cameras, swipe cards, surf the net. Agencies are using increasingly sophisticated computer systems Surveillance as Social Sorting proposes that surveillance is not simply a contemporary threat to individual freedoms, but that, more insidiously, it is a powerful means of creating and reinforcing long-term social differences. As practised today, it is actually a form of social sorting Bringing together contributions from North America and Europe, Surveillance as Social Sorting offers a innovative approach to the interaction between societies and their technologies. It looks at a number of examples in depth and will be an appropriate source of reference for a wide variety of courses.
Synopsis
This book examines some crucial aspects of surveillance processes with a view to showing what constitutes them, why the growth of surveillance is accelerating and what is really at stake personally and politically. It scrutinises individual surveillance systems - for example CCTV, biometrics, intelligent transportation systems, smart cards, on-line profiling - and discusses their implications for our future.
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Once, the word "surveillance" was reserved for highly specific scrutiny of suspects, for police wiretapping or for foreign intelligence. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Once, the word "surveillance" was reserved for highly specific scrutiny of suspects, for police wiretapping or for foreign intelligence. Read the first page
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