I'd appreciate recommendations of references on the history of
surveillance practices and technologies.
My own depiction in various publications is that, from very early
times, there was physical observation. This came to be augmented by
tools such as telescopes. From the beginnings of the electronic era,
physical oservation of the individual was complemented by electronic
surveillance of the individual's communications (initially, wire-taps
of the telegraph). Following the application of the computer to
administration in the 1950s, dataveillance developed rapidly,
enabling much more economical monitoring of individuals' digital
personae than is possible of their physical selves, and the
sophistication and intrusiveness of dataveillance continues to
increase. Observation has also been augmented in several ways. Etc.
But surely someone has done a *real* job, and traced the threads more
thoroughly than my works have done?
Many thanks for leads.
--
Roger Clarke http://www.rogerclarke.com/
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Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law University of NSW
Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University
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