Abstract:A private security contractor for business and government, Allan Pinkerton acted centrally in early chapters of the history of the security state. The operative and the report, Pinkerton's principal surveillance technologies, are analyzed here in relation to each other and in their historical development as information technology, drawing on Pinkerton's fictionalized accounts of cases, secret reports, and other agency documents. Pinkerton management was consistently preoccupied with strict compliance of operatives, their deployment in a network, and the regular submission of reports. This study suggests that information can lead to uncertainty and that the surveillance state was and is compartmentalized, entrepreneurial, and other-than-public.

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平克顿的国家侦探社与十九世纪监视国家的信息工作

摘要：作为商业和政府的私人安全承包商，艾伦平克顿在安全国家历史的早期章节中发挥了中心作用。特工和报告，平克顿的主要监视技术，在这里分析彼此之间的关系以及它们作为信息技术的历史发展，利用平克顿对案件的虚构描述、秘密报告和其他机构文件。平克顿管理层始终专注于严格遵守操作人员、将他们部署到网络中以及定期提交报告。这项研究表明，信息可能会导致不确定性，并且监视状态过去和现在都是分割的、创业的和非公众的。