Everyday Surveillance: Personal data and social classifications

TitleEveryday Surveillance: Personal data and social classifications
Publication TypeJournal Article
AuthorsLyon, David
JournalInformation, Communication & Society
Volume5
Issue2
Pagination242-257
ISSN1369-118X
AbstractSurveillance is no longer merely a matter of deliberate, individual scrutiny and consequent fears for personal privacy. It is an everyday experience, run by myriad agencies for multiple purposes and exempting no one. Surveillance is also an ambiguous process, the two faces of which must yet be seen in relation to each other. Numerous data - now including biometric, genetic and video data - are abstracted from embodied persons and manipulated to create profiles and risk categories in a networked, rhizomic system. The resulting classifications are intended to influence and to manage populations and persons. The choices and the chances of data-subjects are thus both directly and indirectly affected, but socio-technical surveillance systems are also affected by people complying with, negotiating or resisting surveillance.
URLhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691180210130806
DOI10.1080/13691180210130806
Short TitleEveryday Surveillance