The Panoptic Sort: A Political Economy of Personal Information 2nd Edition by Oscar H. Gandy Jr. 0197579418 9780197579411

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• ISBN 10: 0197579418
• ISBN 13:  9780197579411
• Author: Oscar H. Gandy Jr.

The Panoptic Sort was published in 1993. Its focus was on privacy and surveillance. But unlike the majority of publications addressing these topics in the United States at the time that were focused on the privacy concerns of individuals, especially those related to threats associated with government surveillance, that book sought to direct public toward the activities of commercial firms. It was highly critical of the failure of scholars and political activists to pay sufficient attention to the threats to individual autonomy, collective agency, and the exercise of social responsibility. The Panoptic Sort was intended to help us all to understand just what was at stake when the bureaucracies of government and commerce gathered, processed, and made use of an almost unlimited amount of personal, and transaction-generated information to manage social, economic, and political activities within society.

Table contents:

Chapter 1: Prologue
Chapter 2: Information and Power
Chapter 3: Operating the Panoptic Sort
Chapter 4: Corporate Perspectives on the Panoptic Sort
Chapter 5: Relationships and Expectations
Chapter 6: The Social Origins of Views on Privacy
Chapter 7: A Data Protection Regime
Chapter 8:Conclusion

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