The field of surveillance studies is growing at a rapid rate,
fuelled by a growing interest in the questions that lie at its
heart and a deep unease about the future of individual privacy.
What information is held about us, to what extent that information
is secure, how new technologies ought to be regulated, and how
developments in surveillance will affect our ordinary and everyday
lives?
Deliberately multi-disciplinary in character, this book examines
these questions from the perspective of a broad range of fields,
including sociology, management research, law, literary analysis
and internet studies. As privacy comes under increasing threat and
surveillance activities grow in quantity and diversity, so too the
academic field needs to develop in new directions, form new
perspectives, and gain new insights. In keeping with this aim, the
chapters of this book consider how individuals, organisations, and
states are engaged in the compilation, mobilization, scrutiny and
use of ever increasing amounts of information.
Divided into three sections focusing in turn on legal
regulation, technologies of surveillance, and the future of privacy
and surveillance, this collection provides a unique and eclectic
insight into the question of how the spread of surveillance is
changing our lives and the societies in which we live.
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