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New Directions in Surveillance and Privacy book cover

1st Edition

New Directions in Surveillance and Privacy

Edited By Benjamin J. Goold, Daniel Neyland Copyright 2009
240 Pages
by Willan

240 Pages
by Willan

240 Pages
by Willan
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The field of surveillance studies is growing at a rapid rate, fuelled by a growing interest in the questions that lie at its heart and a deep unease about the future of individual privacy. What information is held about us, to what extent that information is secure, how new technologies ought to be regulated, and how developments in surveillance will affect our ordinary and everyday lives?... Read more
Introduction: Where next for surveillance studies? Exploring new directions in privacy and surveillance, Daniel Neyland and Benjamin J.Goold  Part One: Regulation  1. The limits of privacy protection, James B. Rule  2. Building it in: the role of privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) in the regulation of surveillance and data collection, Benjamin J. Goold  3. Regulation of converged communications surveillance, Ian Brown  4. From targeted to mass surveillance: is the EU Data Retention Directive a necessary measure or an unjustified threat to privacy? Marie-Helen Maras  Part Two: Technologies and Techniques of Surveillance  5. Surveillance, accountability and organisational failure: the story of Jean Charles de Menezes, Daniel Neyland  6. Perceptions of government technology, surveillance and privacy: the UK Identity Cards Scheme, Edgar A. Whitley  Part Three: Surveillance Futures  7. 'Ten Thousand Times Larger...': anticipating the expansion of surveillance, Kevin D. Haggerty  8. Since 'Nineteen Eighty Four': representations of surveillance in literary fiction, Mike Nellis

Biography

Benjamin Goold is an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law, and a Research Associate at the Oxford University Centre for Criminology. His major research interests are in the use of surveillance technology by the police and the relationship between individual privacy rights and the criminal law.

Daniel Neyland is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Organisation, Work and Technology at Lancaster University. His research interests incorporate issues of privacy, surveillance, trust, identity, governance and accountability.

'[T[he book is a timely intervention. ... The chapters of the book are very contemporary, capturing a picture of issues in surveillance and privacy as they currently stand.

The book moves beyond critique and several chapters contain proposald for regulatory or technological measures to counter the diminution of privacy and control over personal information.' - David Barnard-Wills, Cranfield University in Information, Community and Society

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