by David Lyon (ed) - £33.99 routledge (2003)
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ISBN 13: 9780415278737 | ISBN 10: 0415278732
Surveillance happens to us all, every day, as we walk beneath street cameras, swipe cards and surf the Net. Agencies are using increasingly sohisticated computer systems - especially searchable databases - to keep tabs on us at home, work and play. Once the word surveillance was reserved for police activities and intelligence gathering, now it is an unavoidable feature of everyday life. 'Surveillance as Social Sorting' proposes that surveillance is not simply a contemporary thret to individual freedom, but that, more insidiously, it is a powerful means of creating and reinforcing long-term social differences. As practiced today, it is actually a form of social sorting - a means of verifying identities but also of assessing risks and assigning worth. Questions of how catergories are constructed therefore become significant ethical and political questions.
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