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Book SynopsisAddressing issues of the global integration of surveillance, social control, new information technologies, privacy violation and protection, and workplace surveillance, this work examines the ramifications of these concerns for society today.
Table of ContentsSurveillance, privacy, and the new technology, David Lyon and Elia Zureik. Part I Work: genetic testing and workplace surveillance - implications for privacy, Priscilla M. Regan; privacy and surveillance in computer-supported cooperative work, Judith A. Perrolle; high-tech workplace surveillance - what's really new?, James B. Rule. Part II Marketplace: social control and the network marketplace, Abbe Mowshowitz; how the marriage of management and computing intensifies the struggle for personal privacy, Rob Kling and Jonathan P. Allen; coming to terms with the panoptic sort, Oscar H. Gandy Jr; privacy - a concept whose time has come and gone, Calvin C. Gotlieb. Part III Culture: databases as discourse, or, electronic interpellations, Mark Poster; electric eye in the sky - some reflections on the new surveillance and popular culture, Gary T. Marx. Part IV Regulation: the public surveillance of personal data - a cross-national analysis, Colin J. Bennett; surveying surveillance - an approach to measuring the extent of surveillance, Simon G. Davies.
