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 military theory and the Echelon Project, Armand
Mattelart constructs a genealogy of this new power of control and
examines its globalising dynamic. This book provides an essential
wake-up call at a time when democratic societies are becoming less
and less vigilant against the dangers of proliferating systems of
surveillance.
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