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Global surveillance and policing : borders, security, identity / edited by Elia Zureik and Mark B Salter

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cullompton, Devon UK: WillanPublishing, 2005Description: 259 pISBN:
  • 184392160X :
Subject(s): Summary: Collection of papers concerned with the dramatic changes in states' capacity to monitor their own and other citizens, why they wish to do so, their willingness to do so, the effect on individuals, and the procedures needed to control abuses. The focus is on real and conceptual borders, ID cards and the massive databases to which they are linked, the integration of previously discrete data collections, automated categorization, and the movement of individuals across borders.
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Collection of papers concerned with the dramatic changes in states' capacity to monitor their own and other citizens, why they wish to do so, their willingness to do so, the effect on individuals, and the procedures needed to control abuses. The focus is on real and conceptual borders, ID cards and the massive databases to which they are linked, the integration of previously discrete data collections, automated categorization, and the movement of individuals across borders.

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