National identity cards are in the news. While paper ID documents have been used in some countries for a long time, today's rapid growth features high-tech IDs with built-in biometrics and RFID chips. Both long-term trends towards e-Government and the more recent responses to 9/11 have prompted the quest for more stable identity systems. Commercial pressures mix with security rationales to catalyze ID development, aimed at accuracy, efficiency and speed. New ID systems also depend on computerized national registries. Many questions are raised about new IDs but they are often limited by...
National identity cards are in the news. While paper ID documents have been used in some countries for a long time, today's rapid growth features h...
Surveillance is always a means to an end, whether that end is influence, management or entitlement. This text examines the several layers of surveillance that control the Palestinian population in Israel and the occupied territories, showing how they operate, how well they work and how in the end their chief purpose is population control.
Surveillance is always a means to an end, whether that end is influence, management or entitlement. This text examines the several layers of surveilla...
'Today the smallest details of our daily lives are tracked and traced more closely than ever before, and those who are monitored often cooperate willingly with the monitors. From London and New York to New Delhi, Shanghai and Rio de Janeiro, video cameras are a familiar and accepted sight in public places. Air travel now commonly involves devices such as body-scanners and biometric checks that have proliferated in the wake of 9/11. And every day Google and credit-card issuers note the details of our habits, concerns and preferences, quietly prompting customized marketing strategies with...
'Today the smallest details of our daily lives are tracked and traced more closely than ever before, and those who are monitored often cooperate wi...
In what ways does contemporary surveillance reinforce social divisions?How are police and consumer surveillance becoming more similar as they are automated?Are we forced to choose between classical and poststructuralist approaches in explaining surveillance?Why is surveillance both expanding globally and focusing more on the human body?"Surveillance Society "takes a post-privacy approach to surveillance with a fresh look at the relations between technology and society. Personal data is collected from us all the time, whether we know it or not, through identity numbers, camera images, or...
In what ways does contemporary surveillance reinforce social divisions?How are police and consumer surveillance becoming more similar as they are auto...
Prominent among the quests for post 9/11 security are developments in surveillance, especially at airports and on borders. Such activities are not new, but after 9/11 many surveillance trends have been intensified. The result? More and more persons and populations are counted as suspicious. At the same time, less is disclosed about surveillance. And the technologies make it even more opaque, such that not only suspicion but widespread secrecy also attends its growth. This book assesses post-9/11 surveillance trends, showing how existing surveillance activities have been extended, and that...
Prominent among the quests for post 9/11 security are developments in surveillance, especially at airports and on borders. Such activities are not new...
Príbeh o láske, umení a smrti, v ktorom sa životy hrdinov raz osudovo, inokedy voľne spájajú. Spoznáte zábavné a tajomné rituály na odľahlom vidieku, vyveziete sa na ufo na Moste SNP a navštívite bruselské Atómium. Nasadnete do nočného vlaku a na dunajský parník. Stretnete ženu-bábiku aj mladého filmára, ktorý v provincii dokončuje poslednú snímku. Zažijete zlomové udalosti, keď sa u nás písali dejiny svetového divadla, v kultovom klube nadišla divoká noc a v tvorbe budúcnosti nastala nová éra. Lebo... Michal Hvorecký (1976, Bratislava) vydal...
Príbeh o láske, umení a smrti, v ktorom sa životy hrdinov raz osudovo, inokedy voľne spájajú. Spoznáte zábavné a tajomné rituály na odľah...
Intelligence gathering is in a state of flux. Enabled by massive computing power, new modes of communications analysis now touch the lives of citizens around the globe - not just those considered suspicious or threatening. Big Data Surveillance and Security Intelligence reveals the profound shift to "big data" practices that security agencies have made in recent years, as the increasing volume of information challenges traditional ways of gathering intelligence. In this astute collection, leading academics, civil society experts, and regulators debate the pressing questions this trend raises...
Intelligence gathering is in a state of flux. Enabled by massive computing power, new modes of communications analysis now touch the lives of citizens...
