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Transparent Lives - Surveillance in Canada (Paperback)
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Transparent Lives - Surveillance in Canada (Paperback)
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The work of a multidisciplinary research team, Transparent Lives
explains how surveillance is expanding—mostly unchecked—into
every facet of our lives. Although many Canadians are aware that
government agencies are able to conduct mass surveillance using
phone and online data, relatively few of us recognize the extent to
which our privacy has been invaded by routine forms of monitoring.
We cannot walk down a city street, attend a class, pay with a
credit card, hop on an airplane, or make a phone call without data
being captured and processed. Where does such information go, and
who makes use of it? Who gains, and who loses? The New Transparency
Project set out to investigate the myriad of ways in which both
government and private sector organizations gather, monitor,
analyze, and share information about ordinary citizens. This
research, which extended over several years, culminated in the
identification of nine key trends in the contemporary practice of
surveillance—trends that, together, raise urgent questions of
both privacy and social justice. Perhaps the loss of control over
our personal information is merely the price we pay for using
social media and other forms of electronic communication. Or should
we instead be wary of systems that make us visible, and thus
vulnerable, to others as never before? Transparent Lives is
intended to inform policymakers, journalists, civil liberties
groups, and educators about the current state of surveillance in
Canada. Above all, though, it aims to alert unsuspecting citizens
to the ubiquitous and largely invisible practices of monitoring
that surround them.
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