Description
Book SynopsisTracking technologies are now ubiquitous and are part of many people's everyday lives. Large sections of the population voluntarily use devices and apps to track fitness, medical conditions, sleep, vital signs or their own or others' whereabouts. Governments, health services, immigration and criminal justice agencies increasingly rely upon tracking technologies to monitor individuals' whereabouts, behaviour, medical conditions and interventions. Despite the human rights concerns of some organisations and individuals, most wearers and their significant others tend to welcome the technologies. This paradox is only one of the many fascinating challenges raised by the widespread use of tracking technologies which are explored in this book.
This book critically explores the ethical, legal, social, and technical issues arising from the current and future use of tracking technologies. It provides a unique and wide-ranging discussion, via a cross-disciplinary collection of essays, on
Table of Contents
1.Tracking people: an introduction Anthea Hucklesby and Raymond Holt 2.GPS tracking in care settings: attending to the socio-material context of use Joe Wherton, Trisha Greenhalgh, Sara Shaw, Rob Procter and Jay Shaw 3.Using tracking technologies well: the contribution of the concepts of ‘tightness’ or ‘grip’ Anthea Hucklesby 4.Proportionality and monitoring: penal vs care contexts Tom Sorell 5.‘He’s doing a hokey cokey’: everyday calculations and controversies of digitally mediated punishment in Scotland Ryan Casey 6.Tracking in the interests of counter-terrorism Jessie Blackbourn and Clive Walker 7.Smartphone electronic monitoring (EM), Artificial Intelligence and the mass supervision question in the USA Mike Nellis 8.Reducing opioid related deaths for individuals who are at high risk of overdose: a co-production study Anne Campbell, Sharon Millen, Amanda Taylor-Beswick and Li Guo 9.Using geolocation-based technologies for monitoring people with severe mental illness Niels Peek, Paolo Fraccaro and Sabine van der Veer 10.Tracking people and sociotechnical systems design Raymond Holt 11.Apple AirTags as people trackers Neil McBride
