{"product_id":"surveillance-and-the-vanishing-individual-power-and-privacy-in-the-digital-age-9781538173510","title":"Surveillance and the Vanishing Individual: Power","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSurveillance and the Vanishing Individual is an investigation into the impact of the spread of digital technologies and practices, and especially the wide-spread practice of mass surveillance, on privacy and personhood. The book argues that the quest for prediction, certainty, and control lying at the heart of the state’s security apparatus destroys an essential component of human dignity and fundamentally undermines liberalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book begins with a discussion of the rise of the digital age and the historical import of this development. Subsequent chapters of the book examine different cultural understandings of privacy, the philosophical discussion of its centrality to human existence, and the form and extent of its legal protection. Lindau explores the reasons behind the rise of mass state surveillance, the modest legal restraints governing its use, and its deployment against activists, protestors, and dissidents and its impact on individuals and on privacy. The book then turns to a discussion of the rise of “surveillance capitalism” and, because this is not just—or even primarily—a U.S. phenomenon, examines the political, social, and other impacts of social media around the world. The book includes a case study discussing the global use of surveillance during the Covid-19 pandemic and the implications of this development before concluding with reflections on the relationship between mass surveillance and liberalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book will appeal equally to readers across the social sciences and philosophy, and to students in courses on privacy, surveillance, and democracy. Lindau expertly explores the social, political, and economic consequences of digitization and one of its essential features – the appropriation and “mining” of ever large troves of personal information. The book primarily focuses on the experience of the United States but includes a comparative cross-national and cross-regional analysis and a discussion of the link between different regime types and state surveillance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: The Transition from the Industrial to the Digital Age\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdditional Reasons for the Failure to Confront the Consequences of the Digital Age\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew Configurations of Power in the Digital Age\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Emergence of New Digital Economic Identities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Impact of the Internet on Political and Associational Activity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Interdisciplinary Discussions of Privacy and its Loss\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSocio-cultural Understandings of Privacy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRationalization for the Loss of Privacy in the Digital Age\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe “I Have Nothing to Hide Rationalization”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe “I Am Irrelevant” Rationalization\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Trump Rationalization\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublic Defenders of Mass Surveillance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Philosophical Debates About Privacy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArguments About Privacy’s Subsidiarity to Other Rights and Interests\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Privacy as a Legal and Constitutional Right\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Fourth Amendment and Privacy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Legal and Constitutional Protection of Privacy in Other Countries\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInternational Law and Privacy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: National Security and the Expansion of Digital Surveillance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNational Security and State Surveillance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eState Constituencies Favoring Surveillance in the United States\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Left and the Right and Mass Surveillance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: The Legal Architecture Governing Mass State Surveillance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEO 12333\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSection 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Snowden Revelations and the USA FREEDOM Act\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdditional Legal Decisions Restricting Surveillance in the United States\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Features of State Surveillance in the United States\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe U.S. Government’s Policing of the World Wide Web and the Growth of the Surveillance Industrial Complex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Typical Example of the Fruits of the Surveillance Industrial Complex: Facial Recognition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnother Example of a Flourishing Surveillance Industrial Complex Project: Cloud Surveillance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Role of Higher Education in State Surveillance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Surveilling the Most Vulnerable: The State and Refugees, Migrants, Dissidents and Minorities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eState Surveillance of African Americans Other Ethnic Minorities and a Variety of Dissidents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContemporary FBI Surveillance of Other Non-Violent Dissidents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Global Digital Mass Surveillance Practices\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNationalism, Militarism and State Surveillance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Understandings Embedded in Smart Cities\/Safe Cities Initiatives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Case Study: The Drug War and State Surveillance in Latin America\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Representative Examples of State Surveillance Around the World \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChina\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRussia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIsrael\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe United Kingdom\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGermany\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrazil\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMexico\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNigeria\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSouth Africa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThailand\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVietnam\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: The Rise of “Surveillance Capitalism”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGoogle\/Alphabet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFacebook\/Meta\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmazon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTerms and Conditions and the Exploitation of an Obsolete Regulatory Environment\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCorporate Surveillance and Workers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12: Conspiracy Theories and Other Impacts of the Social Media Platforms\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSocial Media, the QAnon Conspiracy Theory and the Spread of Misinformation about the COVID-19 Pandemic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSocial Media, Conspiracy Theories, and the January 6, 2021 Riot in the U.S. Capitol\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFacebook’s Impact on Politics in the Global South\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Rise of Objections to the Social Media Companies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13: Surveillance Tools and the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Case Study\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConcerns about Pandemic Surveillance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Bio-Surveillance Approach to COVID-19 in the West\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOther Western 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