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By Gary T. Marx

ISBN-10: 022628591X

ISBN-13: 9780226285917

We dwell in an age saturated with surveillance. Our own and public lives are more and more on show for governments, retailers, employers, hackers—and the in simple terms curious—to see. In Windows into the Soul, Gary T. Marx, a imperative determine within the swiftly increasing box of surveillance stories, argues that surveillance itself is neither sturdy nor undesirable, yet that context and comportment make it so.

In this landmark booklet, Marx sums up a life of paintings on problems with surveillance and social keep watch over by way of disentangling and parsing the empirical richness of gazing and being watched. utilizing fictional narratives in addition to the findings of social technological know-how, Marx attracts on a long time of stories of covert policing, computing device profiling, position and paintings tracking, drug checking out, caller id, and masses extra, Marx offers us a conceptual language to appreciate the recent realities and his paintings in actual fact emphasizes the paradoxes, trade-offs, and confusion enveloping the sector. Windows into the Soul exhibits how surveillance can penetrate our social and private lives in profound, and infrequently harrowing, methods. eventually, Marx argues, spotting complexity and asking the best questions is key to bringing mild and responsibility to the darker, extra iniquitous corners of our rising surveillance society.

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