Surveillance as social sorting : privacy, risk, and digital discrimination / edited by David Lyon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lyon, David, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Privacy, Right of.

Social control.

Data protection.

Electronic surveillance.

Closed-circuit television--Social aspects.

Closed-circuit television.

Physical Description:

xi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.

Summary:

This book examines some crucial aspects of surveillance processes with a view to showing what constitutes them, why the growth of surveillance is accelerating and what is really at stake personally and politically. It scrutinizes individual surveillance systems - CCTV, biometrics, intelligent transportation systems, smart cards, on-line profiling - and discusses their implications for our future. "Surveillance as Social Sorting is a fascinating contribution to a relatively new field - surveillance studies. This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information. Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415278724

0415278732

OCLC:

49952428