Surveillance has become a persistent concern of the digital age. Technology provides new ways of connecting people, but at the same time the digital traces of our lives perpetually haunt us. Twenty years ago Cairncross observed that 'paradoxically, the electronic media make it easier for pornographers, hackers, and swindlers to hide behind anonymity while at the same time representing a serious threat to privacy' (1997: 191-192). Almost a decade later the Office of the Information Commissioner published a report on the state of the surveillance society in the UK that declared: We live in a surveillance society. It is pointless to talk about surveillance society in the future tense. In all the rich countries of the world everyday life is suffused with surveillance encounters, not merely from dawn to dusk but 24/7. (Wood, 2006)
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