Surveillance as Social Sorting by David Lyon (9780415278720)

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This 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 scrutinises individual surveillance systems - for example CCTV, biometrics, intelligent transportation systems, smart cards, on-line profiling - and discusses their implications for our future.

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