Stopping the spies : constructing and resisting the surveillance state in South Africa / Jane Duncan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duncan, Jane, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Privacy, Right of--South Africa.

Privacy, Right of.

Electronic surveillance--South Africa.

Electronic surveillance.

Video surveillance--South Africa.

Video surveillance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Jane Duncan questions the extent to which South Africa is becoming a surveillance society governed by a surveillance state. She explores the forms of collective action needed to ensure that unaccountable surveillance does not take place and examines what does and does not work when it comes to developing organised responses.

Contents:

Cover

Halftitle Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

List of Acronyms

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1. Theorising the surveillance state

Chapter 2. Is privacy dead? Resistance to surveillance after the Snowden disclosures

Chapter 3. The context of surveillance and social control in South Africa

Chapter 4. Lawful interception in South Africa

Chapter 5. State mass surveillance, tactical surveillance and hacking in South Africa

Chapter 6. Privacy, surveillance and public spaces in South Africa

Chapter 7. Privacy, surveillance and population management: the turn to biometrics

Chapter 8. Stopping the spies: resisting unaccountable surveillance in South Africa

Chapter 9. Conclusion

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781776142170

1776142179