The Globalization of Surveillance
Video surveillance, public records, fingerprints, hidden microphones, RFID chips: in contemporary societies the intrusive techniques of surveillance used in daily life have increased dramatically. The war against terror has only exacerbated this trend, creating a world that is closer than one might have imagined to that envisaged by George Orwell in 1984.How have we reached this situation? Why have democratic societies accepted that their rights and freedoms should be taken away, a little at a time, by increasingly sophisticated mechanisms of surveillance?From the anthropometry of the 19th Century to the Patriot Act, through an analysis of mi…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7456-4510-0
- EAN: 9780745645100
- Produktnummer: 7291643
- Verlag: Polity Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 249 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.5 cm x D2.3 cm 499 g
- Gewicht: 499
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Armand Mattelart is Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris VIII.
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