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The End of Privacy: How Total Surveillance is Becoming a Reality (Back to Basics) [Englisch] [Gebundene Ausgabe]

Reginald Whitaker
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  • Gebundene Ausgabe: 195 Seiten
  • Verlag: The New Press (Februar 1999)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN-10: 1565843789
  • ISBN-13: 978-1565843783
  • Größe und/oder Gewicht: 24,1 x 16,1 x 1,9 cm
  • Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.1 von 5 Sternen  Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (7 Kundenrezensionen)
  • Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.831.817 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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The End of Privacy is a book about power--more specifically, it discusses surveillance as a powerful mechanism of social control. Philosophers such as Jeremy Bentham and Michel Foucault developed the concept of the "panopticon," an ideal prison where compliance with rules is guaranteed through complete and inescapable surveillance. Applying the principles involved to real-world examples that trace the development of surveillance technologies from Second World War military intelligence to the electronic data-veillance of the information revolution, Whitaker provides a thorough analysis of how our society may be gradually approaching panopticism.

Thanks to dramatic technological advances, surveillance monitoring can now provide nearly global coverage, exposing the everyday lives of ordinary people--in the workplace, at school, on the Internet, everywhere--to serve public, private, and prurient interests. Today, Whitaker notes, private-information brokers amass databases for an innumerable variety of commercial purposes--from credit reporting to mass marketing. Vast amounts of detailed personal information, including seemingly useless minutiae, end up in corporate hands. Orwell's monolithic Big Brother has fragmented into a myriad of Little Brothers, which add up to a powerful system with little or no accountability. Who, Whitaker asks, watches the watchers? --Tim Hogan

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Surveillance in the Internet Age is ubiquitous, and political scientist Whitaker breaks down the jumbled anxieties individuals hold, knowing that Big Brother, or rather many Little Brothers and Sisters, are watching our health, conversations, e-mails, credit, taxes, employment, and movements about town. In this descriptive rather than prescriptive analysis, Whitaker adopts as a conceptual tool an idea by the ur-mensch of utilitarianism, Jeremy Bentham, who designed a prison, neologistically named the Panopticon. The Panopticon endures as "a metaphor for the power of surveillance," explains Whitaker. The Panoptic principle (of inducing the observed to internalize the rules set by the observer) has spread from the security agencies of states into private commercial interests, such as database companies. Whitaker is intrigued by the acquiescence of people to this intrusive power; his answer is that they accept it as the cost of being a consumer. Politics concerns not simply elections, leaders, and policies; it is also a measure of one's liberty and personal power, and Whitaker's potent portrayal shows that people don't have as much autonomy as they believe. Gilbert Taylor

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Simply the best 10. Juni 2000
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I think Reg Whitaker did an excellent job in descriving how our privacy can be infringed on a daily basis. The best part is the second chapter, where he explains that the digitalization and the creation of databases are the main 2 causes of "the end of privacy"
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I bought this book because an author I have read who was recommended on a online news site also recommended Reg Whitaker. I was amazed to see that everything I had learned by reading a novel, "Transfer" by Jerry Furland was for real. I am getting a serious case of the shakes here. I thought "Transfer" was just another book about near term events that may or may not be accurate. Not anymore. I am convinced. Read this book. Get smart about where we are headed. Tell your friends and colleagues too.
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Mr. Whitaker has done a fine job of increasing my awareness of surveillance and how it can affect my every day life. I have become more careful about the information that I disclose and to whom I disclose it. While computers and computerization are a large part of the surveillance industry, I felt that more time could have been spent on other types of privacy theft and less on cyber voyerism. Overall, I believe that the book served its purpose, assisting me in my professional and private life. Again, I believe too much ink was spent on the computer aspect of surveillance.
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