This book examines some crucial aspects of surveillance processes with a view to showing what constitutes them, why the growth of surveillance is accelerating and what is really at stake personally and politically It scrutinizes individual surveillance systems - CCTV, biometrics, intelligent transportation systems, smart cards, on-line озылю profiling - and discusses their implications for our future Surveillance as Social Sorting is a fascinating contribution to a relatively new field - surveillance studies. Тема книгиISBN 0415278732.