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Product DescriptionProminent among the quests for post-9/11 security are developments in surveillance, especially at national borders. These developments are not new, but many of them have been extended and intensified. The result? More and more...

ISBN13: 9780745641560Condition: NEWNotes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionNew ID card systems are proliferating around the world. These may use digitized fingerprints or photos, may be contactless, using a scanner, and...

Product DescriptionThis book examines some crucial aspects of surveillance processes with a view to showing what constitutes them, why the growth of surveillance is accelerating and what is really at stake personally and politically. It scrutinizes...

Product DescriptionThe author of The Information Society looks into the mediated nature of modern society, in which every transaction, phone call, vote, border-crossing, and application registers into some computer. Simultaneous.... More...

Product DescriptionThe study of surveillance is more relevant than ever before. The fast growth of the field of surveillance studies reflects both the urgency of civil liberties and privacy questions in the war on terror era and the classical social...