"Computers, Surveillance, and Privacy " was first published in
1996. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make
long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published
unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press
editions.
From computer networks to grocery store checkout scanners, it is
easier and easier for governments, employers, advertisers, and
individuals to gather detailed and sophisticated information about
each of us. In this important new collection, the authors question
the impact of these new technologies of surveillance on our privacy
and our culture.
Although surveillance-literally some people "watching over"
others-is as old as social relationships themselves, with the
advent of the computer age this phenomenon has acquired new and
distinctive meanings. Technological advances have made it possible
for surveillance to become increasingly global and integrated-both
commercial and government-related personal data flows more
frequently across national boundaries, and the flow between private
and public sectors has increased as well.
Addressing issues of the global integration of surveillance,
social control, new information technologies, privacy violation and
protection, and workplace surveillance, the contributors to
Computers, Surveillance, and Privacy grapple with the ramifications
of these concerns for society today. Timely and provocative, this
collection will be of vital interest to anyone concerned with
resistance to social control and incursions into privacy.
Contributors: Jonathan P. Allen, Colin J. Bennett, Simon G.
Davies, Oscar H. Gandy Jr., Calvin C. Gotlieb, Rob Kling, Gary T.
Marx, Abbe Mowshowitz, Judith A. Perrolle, Mark Poster, Priscilla
M. Regan, James B. Rule.
David Lyon is professor of sociology at Queen's University,
Canada. His previous books include "The Electronic Eye: The Rise of
Surveillance Society" (Minnesota, 1994). Elia Zureik is also
professor of sociology at Queen's University, Canada, and coedited
(with Dianne Hartling) "The Social Context of the New Information
and Communication Technologies" (1987).
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