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Surveillance After September 11 (Paperback)
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Prominent among the quests for post--9/11 security are developments
in surveillance, especially at national borders. These developments
are not new, but many of them have been extended and intensified.
The result? More and more people and populations are counted as
"suspicious" and, at the same time, surveillance techniques become
increasingly opaque and secretive. Lyon argues that in the
aftermath of 9/11 there have been qualitative changes in the
security climate: diverse databases containing personal information
are being integrated; biometric identifiers, such as iris scans,
are becoming more popular; consumer data are merged with those
obtained for policing and intelligence, both nationally and across
borders. This all contributes to the creation of ever--widening
webs of surveillance. But these systems also sort people into
categories for differential treatment, the most obvious case being
that of racial profiling. This book assesses the consequences of
these trends. Lyon argues that while extraordinary legal measures
and high--tech systems are being adopted, promises made on their
behalf -- that terrorism can be prevented -- are hard to justify.
Furthermore, intensifying surveillance will have social
consequences whose effects could be far--reaching: the undermining
of social trust and of democratic participation.
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