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Computers, Surveillance, and PrivacyAuthor(s): David Lyon, Elia Zureik\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816626533, 978-0816626533\nSynopsis\nComputers, Surveillance, and Privacy was first published in 1996. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.\n\nFrom computer networks to grocery store checkout scanners, it is easier and easier for governments, employers, advertisers, and individuals to gather detailed and sophisticated information about each of us. In this important new collection, the authors question the impact of these new technologies of surveillance on our privacy and our culture.\n\nAlthough surveillance-literally some people \""watching over\"" others-is as old as social relationships themselves, with the advent of the computer ag.