Surveillance as Social Sorting: Privacy, Risk and Automated Discrimination

by Lyon,David; Lyon,David

• ISBN13: 9780415278737
• ISBN10: 0415278732
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781134469031
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-12-13
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

This book examines some crucial aspects of surveillance processes with a view to showing what constitutes them, why the growth of surveillance is accelerating and what is really at stake personally and politically. It scrutinizes individual surveillance systems - CCTV, biometrics, intelligent transportation systems, smart cards, on-line profiling - and discusses their implications for our future. Surveillance as Social Sortingis a fascinating contribution to a relatively new field - surveillance studies.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii
Preface and acknowledgements	xiii
Introduction	1	(10)
David Lyon
PART I Orientations	11	(64)
Surveillance as social sorting: computer codes and mobile bodies	13	(18)
David Lyon
Theorizing surveillance: the case of the workplace	31	(26)
Elia Zureik
Biometrics and the body as information: normative issues of the socio-technical coding of the body	57	(18)
Irma Van Der Ploeg
PART II Verifying identities: constituting life-chances	75	(60)
Electronic identity cards and social classification	77	(17)
Felix Stalder
David Lyon
Surveillance creep in the genetic age	94	(17)
Dorothy Nelkin
Lori Andrews
``Racial'' categories and health risks: epidemiological surveillance among Canadian First Nations	111	(24)
Jennifer Poudrier
PART III Regulating mobilities: places and spaces	135	(64)
Privacy and the phenetic urge: geodemographics and the changing spatiality of local practice	137	(16)
David Phillips
Michael Curry
People and place: patterns of individual identification within intelligent transportation systems	153	(23)
Colin Bennett
Charles Raab
Priscilla Regan
Netscapes of power: convergence, network design, walled gardens, and other strategies of control in the information age	176	(23)
Dwayne Winseck
PART IV Targeting trouble: social divisions	199	(83)
Categorizing the workers: electronic surveillance and social ordering in the call center	201	(25)
Kirstie Ball
Private security and surveillance: from the ``dossier society'' to database networks	226	(23)
Greg Marquis
From personal to digital: CCTV, the panopticon, and the technological mediation of suspicion and social control	249	(33)
Clive Norris
Index	282