9 DATAVEILLANCE: DELIVERING 1984
Roger Clarke
During the last few decades, information technology (IT) has become highly sophisticated, and real benefits have been achieved. There have also been considerable negative impacts.
This chapter discusses the application of IT to the surveillance of people through their data. It argues that the risks to individuals and society as a whole are enormous. Moreover, intrinsic control mechanisms are entirely inadequate to ensure measured and balanced application of the techniques of surveillance, and extrinsic control measures have been inadequate and too late. The power relationship between large data-dependent organisations and members of the public is now so unbalanced that concerted action is necessary ...
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