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Law, privacy and information technology: A sleepwalk through the surveillance society?

O'Brien, Mark

Authors

Mark O'Brien



Abstract

The Surveillance Studies Network report of 2006 on the ‘surveillance society’, highlighting the omnipresence of information technology in British society, once again brought into sharp focus concerns about the types and levels of technological surveillance to which the public are subjected. This article seeks to explore the opportunities for surveillance presented by recent developments, and suggests a number of privacy and civil liberties concerns. © 2008, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Citation

O'Brien, M. (2008). Law, privacy and information technology: A sleepwalk through the surveillance society?. Information and Communications Technology Law, 17(1), 25-35. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600830801887214

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Jan 1, 2008
Journal Information and Communications Technology Law
Print ISSN 1360-0834
Electronic ISSN 1469-8404
Publisher Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Peer Reviewed Not Peer Reviewed
Volume 17
Issue 1
Pages 25-35
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/13600830801887214
Keywords law, privacy, information technology, surveillance
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1020733
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13600830801887214


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