Description
| Product ID: | 9781108445337 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Monitoring Laws |
| Subtitle: | Profiling and Identity in the World State |
| Authors: | Author: Jake Goldenfein |
| Page Count: | 198 |
| Subjects: | Information theory, Information theory, Globalization, Ethical issues: scientific, technological and medical developments, Political control and freedoms, Systems of law, Law and society, sociology of law, Digital and information technologies: Legal aspects, Computer security, Globalization, Ethical issues: scientific & technological developments, Political control & freedoms, Systems of law, Law & society, Legal aspects of IT, Computer security |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Traces the history of government profiling, the effects of contemporary technologies on surveillance practices, and how the law protects individuals by protecting 'identity'. Goldenfein's analysis of emerging legal protections for contemporary technological environments makes this ideal for anyone interested in how computation is changing society and governance. Our world and the people within it are increasingly interpreted and classified by automated systems. At the same time, automated classifications influence what happens in the physical world. These entanglements change what it means to interact with governance, and shift what elements of our identity are knowable and meaningful. In this cyber-physical world, or ''world state'', what is the role for law? Specifically, how should law address the claim that computational systems know us better than we know ourselves? Monitoring Laws traces the history of government profiling from the invention of photography through to emerging applications of computer vision for personality and behavioral analysis. It asks what dimensions of profiling have provoked legal intervention in the past, and what is different about contemporary profiling that requires updating our legal tools. This work should be read by anyone interested in how computation is changing society and governance, and what it is about people that law should protect in a computational world. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-03-17 |
