Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: How Canadian Lives Became Transparent to Watching Eyes

Trend 1: Expanding Surveillance: From the Atypical to the Routine

Trend 2: Securitization and Surveillance: From Privacy Rights to Security Risks

Trend 3: The Blurring of Sectors: From Public Versus Private to Public with Private

Trend 4: The Growing Ambiguity of Personal Information: From Personally Identified to Personally Identifiable

Trend 5: Expanding Mobile and Location-Based Surveillance: From Who You Are to Where You Are

Trend 6: Globalizing Surveillance: From the Domestic to the Worldwide

Trend 7: Embedding Surveillance in Everyday Environments: From the Surveillance of People to the Surveillance of Things

Trend 8: Going Biometric: From Surveillance of the Body to Surveillance in the Body

Trend 9: Watching by the People: From Them to Us

Conclusion: What Can Be Done?

APPENDIX 1: Surveillance and Privacy Laws: FAQS

APPENDIX 2: Surveillance Movies

APPENDIX 3: How to Protect Your Privacy Online: FAQS

APPENDIX 4: Canadian NGOs Concerned with Surveillance, Privacy, and Civil Liberties

APPENDIX 5: Further Reading

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About the Author

The New Transparency: Surveillance and Social Sorting is a Major Collaborative Research Initiative funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Its goals are to understand the factors that contribute to the expansion of surveillance as a technology of governance, including its underlying principles, technological infrastructures, and institutional frameworks, and to elucidate the social consequences of surveillance for institutions and for ordinary people. Transparent Lives reflects research conducted in the course of this seven-year project. The volume was jointly authored by eleven members of the New Transparency team: Colin J. Bennett, Andrew Clement, Arthur Cockfield, Aaron Doyle, Kevin D. Haggerty, Stéphane Leman-Langlois, David Lyon, Benjamin Muller, David Murakami Wood, Laureen Snider, and Valerie M. Steeves.