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This book examines the role that business and governments play in shaping and promoting the growth of surveillance in societies today. A series of articles by internationally known surveillance scholars set out the implications, both positive and negative, of the massive surveillance complexes that dominate private and public spaces and all the institutions of modern life.

Surveillance is a central organizing practice. Gathering personal data and processing them in searchable databases drives administrative efficiency but also raises questions about security, governance, civil liberties and privacy. Surveillance is both globalized in cooperative schemes, such as sharing biometric data, and localized in the daily minutiae of social life. This innovative Handbook explores the empirical, theoretical and ethical issues around surveillance and its use in daily life.

With a collection of over forty essays from the leading names in...