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Monitored: Business and Surveillance in a Time of Big Data
by Peter Bloom
(Pluto Press, £16.99)
THE panopticon, philosopher Jeremy Bentham’s unrealised design for a total institution, enabled a single unseen warder to observe its every inmate.
In Monitored, Peter Bloom explains that advances in surveillance technology are making all of us prisoners in the electronic equivalent of Bentham’s blueprint.
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