Spying with Maps: Surveillance Technologies and the Future of Privacy

ISBN-13: 9780226534275 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 264 str.

University of Chicago Press; Mark S. Monmonier

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Maps, as we know, help us find our way around. But they're also powerful tools for someone hoping to find you. Widely available in electronic and paper formats, maps offer revealing insights into our movements and activities, even our likes and dislikes. In Spying with Maps, the maptician Mark Monmonier looks at the increased use of geographic data, satellite imagery, and location tracking across a wide range of field such as military intelligence. law enforcement, market research and traffic engineering. Could these diverse forms of geographic monitoring, he asks, lead to grave consequences for society? To assess this very real threat, he explains how geospatial technology works, what it can reveal, who uses it, and to what effect.