The Globalization of Surveillance

by Armand Mattelart

Book Overview

Video surveillance, public records, fingerprints, hidden microphones, RFID chips: in contemporary societies the intrusive techniques of surveillance used in daily life have increased dramatically. The "war against terror" has only exacerbated this trend, creating a world that is closer than one might have imagined to that envisaged by George Orwell in 1984.

How have we reached this situation? Why have democratic societies accepted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745645119
• ISBN13: 9780745645117
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"