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The Privacy Advocates: Resisting the Spread of Surveillance (The MIT Press) by Bennett, Colin J. (Colin John), 1955- is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Privacy Advocates: Resisting the Spread of Surveillance (The MIT Press) about?
An analysis of the people and groups who have emerged to challenge the increasingly intrusive ways personal information is captured, processed, and disseminated.Today, personal information is captured, processed, and disseminated in a bewildering variety of ways, and through increasingly sophisticated, miniaturized, and distributed technologies: identity cards, biometrics, video surveillance, the use of cookies and spyware by Web sites, data mining and profiling, and many others. In The Privacy Advocates, Colin Bennett analyzes the people and groups around the world who have risen to challenge the most intrusive surveillance practices by both government and corporations. Bennett describes a network of self-identified privacy advocates who have emerged from civil society—without official sanction and with few resources, but surprisingly influential. A number of high-profile conflicts in recent years have brought this international advocacy movement more sharply into focus. Bennett is the first to examine privacy and surveillance not from a legal, political, or technical perspective but from the viewpoint of these independent activists who have found creative ways to affect policy an
Who reads The Privacy Advocates: Resisting the Spread of Surveillance (The MIT Press)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Bennett, Colin J. (Colin John), 1955-
- Publisher
- MIT Press; The MIT Press
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780262514873
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Law, Computer Science, Political Science