This title looks at the social and moral implications of recent scientific advances in the field of surveillance. Issues dealt with include: Government surveillance, espionage, ID cards, sound spying including neural network bugs and phone tapping, spy satellites including the powerful and very secret ECHELON system, CCTV including face recognition and algorithmic surveillance, and, corporate surveillance including surveillance of e-mails, loyalty cards and software to spy on employees.

 

This book is part of a book series called 21St Century Debates .

There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 2000 by Hachette Children's Group .

Scarlett MccGwire is a journalist who has worked with Index on Censorship, a bi-monthly free speech magazine in London, and Amnesty International. She was on the committee of the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom and president of the National Union of Journalists. She is author of a number of Hodder Wayland books.