Surveillance by David Lyon

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Surveillance is everywhere today, generating data about our purchasing, political, and personal preferences. This book shows how surveillance makes people visible and affects their lives, considers the technologies involved and how it grew to its present size and prevalence, and explores the pressing ethical questions surrounding it.

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Surveillance by David Lyon

Surveillance is everywhere today, generating data about our purchasing, political, and personal preferences. This book shows how surveillance makes people visible and affects their lives, considers the technologies involved and how it grew to its present size and prevalence, and explores the pressing ethical questions surrounding it.
David Lyon is former Director of the Surveillance Studies Centre and Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Law at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. He has directed several large-scale international research projects on surveillance, and has authored or edited a number of books, including The Culture of Surveillance (2018) and Surveillance after Snowden (2025). He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2008.
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ISBN 13 9780198796848
ISBN 10 0198796846
Title Surveillance
Author David Lyon
Series Very Short Introductions
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 2024-05-02
Number of pages 176
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.