Spying with Maps
Subtitle: Surveillance Technologies and the Future of Privacy
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: November 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780226534275
Subjects: Geographical information systems (GIS); Impact of science & technology on society; Political control & freedoms; Popular science; Electronic Apparatus And Devices; Remote Sensing Techniques; Technology; Technology & Industrial Arts; Politics/International Relations; Engineering - Electrical & Electronic; Technology / Engineering / Electrical; Earth Sciences - Geography; Electronics - General; Eavesdropping; Electronic surveillance; Privacy, Right of; Remote sensing; Right of privacy
First sentence: Privacy and mapping are two words that rarely share the same sentence.
Description: "In Spying with Maps, the "mapmatician" Mark Monmonier looks at the increased use of geographic data, satellite imagery, and location tracking across a wide range of fields such as military intelligence, law enforcement, market research, and traffic engineering. Could these diverse forms of geographic monitoring, he asks, lead to grave consequences for society? To assess this very real threat, he explains how geospatial technology works, what it can reveal, who uses it, and to what effect."--BOOK JACKET.