Overview

The work of a multidisciplinary research team, Transparent Lives explains how surveillance is expanding—mostly unchecked—into every facet of our lives. Although many Canadians are aware that government agencies are able to conduct mass surveillance using phone and online data, relatively few of us recognize the extent to which our privacy has been invaded by routine forms of monitoring. We cannot walk down a city street, attend a class, pay with a credit card, hop on an airplane, or make a phone call without data being captured and processed. Where does such information go, and who makes use of it? Who gains, and who loses? The New Transparency Project set out to investigate the myriad of ways in which both government and private sector organizations gather, monitor, analyze, and share information about ordinary citizens. This research, which extended over several years, culminated in the identification of nine key trends in the contemporary practice of surveillance—trends that, together, raise urgent questions of both privacy and social justice. Perhaps the loss of control over our personal information is merely the price we pay for using social media and other forms of electronic communication. Or should we instead be wary of systems that make us visible, and thus vulnerable, to others as never before? Transparent Lives is intended to inform policymakers, journalists, civil liberties groups, and educators about the current state of surveillance in Canada. Above all, though, it aims to alert unsuspecting citizens to the ubiquitous and largely invisible practices of monitoring that surround them.

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Author:   Colin J. Bennett ,  Kevin D. Haggerty ,  David Lyon ,  Valerie M. Steeves
Publisher:   AU Press
Imprint:   AU Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9781927356777

ISBN 10:   1927356776
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   15 April 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: How Canadian Lives Became Transparent to Watching Eyes Trend 1: Expanding Surveillance: From the Atypical to the Routine Trend 2: Securitization and Surveillance: From Privacy Rights to Security Risks Trend 3: The Blurring of Sectors: From Public Versus Private to Public with Private Trend 4: The Growing Ambiguity of Personal Information: From Personally Identified to Personally Identifiable Trend 5: Expanding Mobile and Location-Based Surveillance: From Who You Are to Where You Are Trend 6: Globalizing Surveillance: From the Domestic to the Worldwide Trend 7: Embedding Surveillance in Everyday Environments: From the Surveillance of People to the Surveillance of Things Trend 8: Going Biometric: From Surveillance of the Body to Surveillance in the Body Trend 9: Watching by the People: From Them to Us Conclusion: What Can Be Done? APPENDIX 1: Surveillance and Privacy Laws: FAQS APPENDIX 2: Surveillance Movies APPENDIX 3: How to Protect Your Privacy Online: FAQS APPENDIX 4: Canadian NGOs Concerned with Surveillance, Privacy, and Civil Liberties APPENDIX 5: Further Reading

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The New Transparency: Surveillance and Social Sorting is a Major Collaborative Research Initiative funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Its goals are to understand the factors that contribute to the expansion of surveillance as a technology of governance, including its underlying principles, technological infrastructures, and institutional frameworks, and to elucidate the social consequences of surveillance for institutions and for ordinary people. Transparent Lives reflects research conducted in the course of this seven-year project. The volume was jointly authored by eleven members of the New Transparency team: Colin J. Bennett, Andrew Clement, Arthur Cockfield, Aaron Doyle, Kevin D. Haggerty, Stéphane Leman-Langlois, David Lyon, Benjamin Muller, David Murakami Wood, Laureen Snider, and Valerie M. Steeves.

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