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Transparent lives : surveillance in Canada / editors, Colin J. Bennett, Kevin D. Haggerty, David Lyon, Valerie Steeves.

Location

Public Safety Canada Library

Resource

e-Books

Alternate Title

Surveillance in Canada

Call Number

Internet

Authors

Publishers

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description

1 online resource (xi, 239 pages) : color illustrations

Note

"The New Transparency Project."
Issued as part of the Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection.

Summary

The work of a multidisciplinary research team, Transparent Lives explains why and how surveillance is expanding-mostly unchecked-into every facet of our lives.

Subject

Online Access

Contents

Introduction: How Canadian Lives Became Transparent to Watching Eyes -- Trend 1. Expanding Surveillance: From the Atypical to the Routine -- Trend 2. Securitization and Surveillance: From Privacy Rights to Security Risks -- Trend 3 The Blurring of Sectors: From Public Versus Private to Public with Private -- Trend 4. The Growing Ambiguity of Personal Information: From Personally Identified to Personally Identifiable -- Trend 5. Expanding Mobile and Location-Based Surveillance: From Who You Are to Where You Are -- Trend 6. Globalizing Surveillance: From the Domestic to the Worldwide -- Trend 7. Embedding Surveillance in Everyday Environments: From the Surveillance of People to the Surveillance of Things -- Trend 8. Going Biometric: From Surveillance of the Body to Surveillance in the Body -- Trend 9. Watching by the People: From Them to Us -- Conclusion: What Can Be Done? -- Appendix 1. Surveillance and Privacy Law: FAQs -- Appendix 2. Surveillance Movies -- Appendix 3. How to Protect Your Privacy Online: FAQs -- Appendix 4. Canadian NGOs Concerned with Surveillance, Privacy, and Civil Liberties -- Appendix 5. Further Reading.

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