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Introduction to Surveillance Studies emphasizes recent technologies and emerging trends such as miniaturized devices, wireless communications, analytics, data mining, and social networks. It also includes a brief history to provide context for the evolution of today’s high‑tech devices.

The text is appropriate for those new to surveillance and those seeking to further their basic understanding. It can be used as an introduction to surveillance and privacy by journalists, urban planners, public servants, trainees in surveillance, law enforcement, military service, forensics, research science, and technology.

It is also an appropriate text for those studying sociology, constitutional freedoms, privacy, and the impact ...

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