Surveillance as social sorting :: privacy, risk, and digital discrimination /

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 - especially searchable databases - to keep tabs on us at home, work and play. Once the word surveillance was reserved for police...

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Other Authors: Lyon, David, 1948- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary: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 - especially searchable databases - to keep tabs on us at home, work and play. Once the word surveillance was reserved for police activities and intelligence gathering, now it is an unavoidable feature of everyday life. Surveillance as Social Sorting proposes that surveillance is not simply a contemporary threat to individual freedom, but that, more insidiously, it is a powerful means of creating and reinforcin.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 287 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0203994884
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