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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 - 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.<br> <br> <em>Surveillance as Social Sorting</em> proposes that surveillance is not simply a contemporary threat to individual freedom, but that, more insidiously, it is a powerful means of creating and reinforcing long-term social differences. As practiced today, it is actually a form of social sorting - a means of verifying identities but also of assessing risks and assigning worth. Questions of how categories are constructed therefore become significant ethical and political questions.<br> <br> Bringing together contributions from North America and Europe, <em>Surveillance as Social Sorting</em> offers an 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 cou

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Author

David Lyon andDavid Lyon

Publisher

London ; New York: Routledge

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781134469031

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Science, Political Science