Buch: The privacy advocates
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Colin J. Bennett: The Privacy Advocates. Resisting the Spread of Surveillance, MIT Press, Cambridge 2008
Today, personal information is captured, processed, and disseminated in a bewildering variety of ways, and through increasingly sophisticated, miniaturized, and distributed technologies: identity cards, biometrics, video surveillance, the use of cookies and spyware by Websites, data mining and profiling, and many others. In The Privacy Advocates, Colin Bennett analyzes the people and groups around the world who have risen to challenge the most intrusive surveillance practices by both government and corporations. Bennett describes a network of self-identified privacy advocates who have emerged from civil society - without official sanction and with few resources, but surprisingly influential.
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