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Archive for September 12, 2009

It’s Just Like Looking in the Mirror

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Via Jay Livingston, I love this! Paris Blog – Stuff Parisians like by Olivier Magny – O Chateau via kwout

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Book Review – Identifying Citizens

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In Identifying Citizens: ID Cards as Surveillance, David Lyon (also lead researcher at The Surveillance Project) continues to unveil the different layers of the surveillance society. In this book, he zeroes in on the technology, impetus and social consequences of various ID cards plans that many countries have implemented or are considering, mainly in the [...]

Posted in Book Reviews, Consumerism, Corporatism, Global Governance, Globalization, Networks, Privacy, Risk Society, Social Deviance, Social Disadvantages, Social Discrimination, Social Exclusion, Social Inequalities, Social Institutions, Social Privilege, Social Stratification, Sociology, Surveillance Society, Transparent Society | No Comments »