bookJan 1, 2003Closed access

Surveillance as social sorting : privacy, risk, and digital discrimination

Abstract

Part One: Orientations 1. Surveillance as Social Sorting: Computer Codes and Mobile Bodies 2. Theorizing Surveillance: The Case of the Workplace 3. Biometrics and the Body as Information: Normative Issues of the Socio-technical Coding of the Body Part Two: Verifying Identities: Constituting Life-Chances 4. Electronic Identity Cards and Social Classification 5. Surveillance Creep in the Genetic Age 6. Racial Categories and Health Risks: Epidemiological Surveillance Among Canadian First Nations Part Three: Regulating Mobilities: Places and Spaces 7. Privacy and the Phenetic Urge: Geodemographics and the Changing Spatiality of Local Practice 8. People and Place: Patterns of Individual Identification within…

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Keywords
  • Panopticon
  • Internet privacy
  • Biometrics
  • Electronic surveillance
  • Access control
  • Identification (biology)
  • Computer security
  • Sociology
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