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Author: David Lyon
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 033520547X

Surveillance Society: Monitoring Everyday Life (Issues in Society)

This text takes a post-privacy approach to surveillance with a fresh look at the relations between technology and society. Get Surveillance Society computer books for free.
Personal data is collected from us all the time, whether we know it or not, through identity numbers, camera images, or increasingly by other means such as fingerprint and retinal scans. This book examines the constant computer-based scrutiny of ordinary daily life for citizens and consumers as they participate in contemporary societies. It argues that to understand what is happening we have to go beyond Orwellian alarms and cries for more privacy to see how such surveillance also reinforces divisions by sorting people into social categories. The issues spill over narrow policy and legal boundaries to generate responses Check Surveillance Society our best computer books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.