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Transparent lives : surveillance in Canada / editors, Colin J. Bennett, Kevin D. Haggerty, David Lyon, Valerie Steeves.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Electronic surveillance--Canada.
- Electronic surveillance.
- Privacy, Right of--Canada.
- Privacy, Right of.
- Social control.
- Canada.
- Social control--Canada.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 239 pages : colour illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Edmonton, AB : AU Press, Athabasca University, [2014]
- Summary:
- Although most Canadians are familiar with surveillance cameras and airport security, relatively few are aware of the extent to which the potential for surveillance is now embedded in virtually every aspect of our lives. We cannot walk down a city street, register for a class, pay with a credit card, hop on an airplane, or make a telephone call without data being captured and processed. Where does such information go? Who makes use of it, and for what purpose? Is the loss of control over our personal information merely the price we pay for using social media and other forms of electronic communication, or should we be wary of systems that make us visible--and thus vulnerable--to others as never before? The work of a multidisciplinary research team, Transparent Lives explains why and how surveillance is expanding--mostly unchecked--into every facet of our lives. Through an investigation of the major ways in which both government and private sector organizations gather, monitor, analyze, and share information about ordinary citizens, the volume identifies nine key trends in the processing of personal data that together raise urgent questions of privacy and social justice. Intended not only to inform but to make a difference, the volume is deliberately aimed at a broad audience, including legislators and policymakers, journalists, civil liberties groups, educators, and, above all, the reading public.
- Contents:
- How Canadian Lives Became Transparent to Watching Eyes
- Trend 1.Expanding Surveillance: From the Atypical to the Routine
- Trend 2. Securitization and Surveillance: From Privacy Rights to Security Risks
- Trend 3. The Blurring of Sectors: From Public Versus Private to Public with Private
- Trend 4. The Growing Ambiguity of Personal Information: From Personally Identified to Personally Identifiable
- Trend 5. Expanding Mobile and Location-Based Surveillance: From Who You Are to Where You Are
- Trend 6. Globalizing Surveillance: From the Domestic to the Worldwide
- Trend 7. Embedding Surveillance in Everyday Environments: From the Surveillance of People to the Surveillance of Things
- Trend 8. Going Biometric: From Surveillance of the Body to Surveillance in the Body
- Trend 9. Watching by the People: From Them to Us
- What Can Be Done?
- Appendices. Surveillance and Privacy Law: FAQs
- Surveillance Movies
- How to Protect Your Privacy Online: FAQs
- Canadian NGOs Concerned with Surveillance, Privacy, and Civil Liberties.
- Notes:
- "The New Transparency Project."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-225) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.
- Other Format:
- Transparent lives.
- ISBN:
- 1927356776
- 9781927356777
- 9781927356784
- 1927356784
- 9781927356791
- 1927356792
- OCLC:
- 867897716
- Publisher Number:
- 99963802229
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