Surveillance Technologies and the future Privacy
Mark Monmonier
- Author(s)
- Mark Monmonier
- Publication
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2002
- Scope
- 239 Pages, illustrated, maps, 22 cm.
- ISBN
- 0226534278
Security cameras, ATMs, tollbooth EZ-Passes, and credit-card terminals archive a person's movements and transactions, and some of the data are being cached in "data warehouses" for as-needed snooping. Match this with satellite surveillance and the imminent embedding of GPS technology in cell phones and possibly beneath a person's skin, and Big Brother's technology looks positively primitive. Monmonier explains the trade-offs of each particular data system, noting their specialized applications for agriculture, forest fires, storms, traffic, tax assessment, electoral redistricting, crime control, and more. But he also explains that "geographic information systems" can integrate separate domains of data, to the delight of marketers.
- Keywords
- cartography , new media
- Location
- Cabinet 13 - 1: Cartografie
- Remarks
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