The book moves the debate beyond alarmist, 'Big Brother' treatments or complacent assumptions that once fair information principles are in place all is well, to a constructive and thought-provoking level. Editor(s): Lyon, David. Num Pages: 304 pages, 5 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFFT; JFM; JPVH; UBJ; URD. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476. . 2002. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Surveillance as Social Sorting
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Date: 2002
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0415278724
ISBN 13: 9780415278720
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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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.

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 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.

Bringing together contributions from North America and Europe, Surveillance as Social Sorting 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 courses.

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