The Privacy Advocates: Resisting the Spread of Surveillance

by Colin J. Bennett

Book Overview

An analysis of the people and groups who have emerged to challenge the increasingly intrusive ways personal information is captured, processed, and disseminated.

Today, personal information is captured, processed, and disseminated in a bewildering variety of ways, and through increasingly sophisticated, miniaturized, and distributed technologies: identity cards, biometrics, video surveillance, the use of cookies and spyware by Web...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262026384
• ISBN13: 9780262026383
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Mit Press
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.1" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher