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Art in Conversation: Visualizing Security Studies Research Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-26 Sara Matthews,Nayrouz Abu Hatoum,Brett Story,Ana Visan
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Review of Klimburg-Witjes, Poechhacker, and Bowker’s Sensing In/Securities: Sensors as Transnational Security Infrastructures Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-26 Shaul A Duke
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Developing Privacy Extensions: Is it Advocacy through the Web Browser? Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-26 Karen Louise Smith,Elysia Guzik
In 2015, Edward Snowden recommended that ordinary citizens use adblocking software and an encryption-oriented privacy extension for their web browser to protect against surveillance. This paper critically explores how the development of privacy extension software for web browsers can be situated in relation to privacy advocacy. Privacy advocates are individuals who act on behalf of the citizenry to
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I’m Different When You Watch Me and On Being Watched Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-26 Judyta Potocka
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The “All-Seeing Community”: Charleston’s Eastside, Video Surveillance, and the Listening Task Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-26 Sarah Koellner
On Charleston’s Eastside, the belief in video surveillance as a tool to “deter crime” was widely shared by the local church community, law enforcement, and social media groups, after a significant increase in gun violence in 2019. By concentrating on the public discourses surrounding the concomitantly rapid increase in gun violence and video surveillance, this paper analyzes the ways in which these
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Smart Pandemic Surveillance?: A Neo-Materialist Analysis of the “Monitora Covid-19” Application in Brazil Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-26 André Lemos,Rodrigo Jose Firmino,Daniel Marques,Eurico Matos,Catarina Lopes
This article discusses smart surveillance based on the particular case of the Brazilian mobile app Monitora Covid-19 from the perspective of issues related to personal-data protection. Brazil is today one of the epicenters of the pandemic. The application under analysis is the tip of a wide network of data monitoring and medical assistance formed by public and private institutions. Based on a neo-materialist
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Review of Thomas’ Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security after 9/11 Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-26 Ben De Bruyn
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Facebook and the Surveillance Assemblage: Policing Black Lives Matter Activists & Suppressing Dissent Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-26 Chloé Lynn Nurik
This article outlines the “social media surveillance assemblage” (Trottier 2011: 63) on Facebook, including its deployment against social activists. In particular, it traces intersecting, dynamic, and opaque data flows among Facebook, third parties, and law enforcement that undermine Black Lives Matter activists and suppress social dissent in the United States. Sources of data include interviews with
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Review of Crain’s Profit Over Privacy: How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-26 Kevin Walby
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Review of Fojas’ Border Optics: Surveillance Cultures on the US-Mexico Frontier Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-26 Hugo Ljungbäck
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Review of Newell’s Police Visibility: Privacy, Surveillance, and the False Promise of Body-Worn Cameras Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-26 Courtney Tabor
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Review of Maki’s Ineligible: Single Mothers Under Welfare Surveillance Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-03-26 Kate Duffy
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Speculative Fiction, Sociology, and Surveillance Studies: Towards a Methodology of the Surveillance Imaginary Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Jade Hinchliffe
Utopian theorists often speak about the merits of reading utopian fiction in order to reimagine and rebuild a better world, but dystopian fiction is often overlooked. This is, in my view, misguided because dystopian fiction, like utopian fiction, diagnoses issues with the present, inspires activism and resistance, and, in the twenty-first century, often presents ideas of how to effect positive change
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Asian Embodiment as Victim and Survivor: Surveillance, Racism, and Race during COVID Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Jenny Korn
This creative work engages in experiential and autoethnographically informed narratives that trace my lived encounters as a Thai American during COVID-19.
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The Field of Vegetable Operations Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Henry Osman
In this short speculation, I imagine a future forest that has been disturbed by invasive species, a changing climate, and engineered plant sensors. By staging this encounter between a wandering hiker, who never quite realizes that he is being watched, and MetaBee™ #21783, a drone that watches over nanobionic spinach, I feel out the strangeness of this burgeoning mode of surveillance. In my own research
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Review of Anon Collective’s Book of Anonymity Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Robert Thornton-Lee
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How Are You Feeling Today? Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Michael Deerwater,Robbie Scarff
This piece of creative writing explores the possible impact of emotional artificial intelligence (EAI), a variety of technologies which have the common aim of inferring human emotion from outward expressions such as facial expressions, vocal patterns, text, and physiological data. It is difficult to determine exactly how EAI might affect people when thinking in the abstract. We therefore took a collaborative
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Surveillance from the Third Millennium Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Yung Au
What will our surveillant futures look like? This piece prods at this nebulous question by taking an exaggerated look at what would happen if we continued down the pathways to a hyper-datafied society that valued optimisation and quickness above all else.
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The Two Ring Test: The Unbearable Predictability of Artificial Intelligence Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Priyanka Khandelwal
This is a coming-of-age of story of a child born and raised in a post-AI society.
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Review of Sarat, Douglas, and Umphrey’s Law and the Visible Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Constantine Gidaris
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Challenging Black Box Technology Power Imbalances by Exposing Them: “Persuasive System” as a Prism for Decomposing Contemporary Surveillance Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Philip Di Salvo,Salvatore Vitale
This article contributes to the discussion around surveillance invisibility by engaging with the existing literature and discussing Salvatore Vitale’s “Persuasive System” installation as a case study. Based on the conceptualization of surveillance as a “black box,” the article frames power imbalances involved in biometrics and video surveillance technologies and shows how Vitale’s installation aims
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APAIC Report on the Holocode Crisis Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Gabriele De Seta
The APAIC Report on the Holocode Crisis is a short story that imagines the future of machine-readable data encodings. In this story, I speculate about the next stage in the development of data encoding patterns: after barcodes and QR codes, the invention of “holocodes” will make it possible to store unprecedented amounts of data in a minuscule physical surface. As a collage of nested fictional materials
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Surveillance Stories: Imagining Surveillance Futures Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Susan Cahill,Bryce Newell
Editorial introduction to special issue on "Surveillance Stories: Imagining Surveillance Futures."
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Financialization and Welfare Surveillance: Regulating the Poor in Technological Times Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-09-21 Shelley Bielefeld,Jenna Harb,Kathryn Henne
In light of concerns that the technologies employed by the digital welfare state exacerbate inequality and oppression, this article considers contemporary shifts in the administration of social assistance. Specifically, it examines the surveillance of recipients of government income support focusing on marginalized peoples in two jurisdictions: social security recipients subject to the Cashless Debit
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Procedural Justice Concerns and Technologically Mediated Interactions with Legal Authorities Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-09-21 Alana Saulnier,Diane Sivasubramaniam
The use of surveillance technologies by legal authorities has intensified in recent years. As new data collection technologies expand into law enforcement spaces previously dominated by interpersonal interactions, questions emerge about whether the public will evaluate interpersonal and technologically mediated interactions with legal authorities in the same ways. In an analysis guided by procedural
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Introduction Domestic Terrorism, White Supremacy, and State Surveillance Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-09-21 Bryce Newell
Introduction to Dialogue section on Domestic Terrorism, White Supremacy, and State Surveillance.
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Participatory Security and Punitive Agency: Acclimation to Homeland Surveillance in the United States Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-09-21 Megan Ward
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Policing Right-Wing Extremism in Canada: Threat Frames, Ideological Motivation, and Societal Implications Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-09-21 Andrew Crosby
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Review of Johnson’s Spy Watching: Intelligence Accountability in the United States Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-09-21 Reg Whitaker
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Democracy's Savior or Citizen Spy? Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-09-21 Robert Tynes
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Right Wing Extremism as Terrorism and the Law’s Relation to Violence Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-09-21 Kris Millett,Amy Swiffen
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The Trap of Tracking: Digital Methods, Surveillance, and the Far Right Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-09-21 Robert Topinka,Alan Finlayson,Cassian Osborne-Carey
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Review of Robertson’s The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-09-21 Monika Lemke
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Review of Sethna and Hewitt’s Just Watch Us: RCMP Surveillance of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Cold War Canada Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-09-21 Emily Arsenault
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Imagining Impact in Global Supply Chains: Data-Driven Sustainability and the Production of Surveillable Space Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-09-21 Matthew Archer
In the context of global agrocommodity supply chains, the sociotechnical imaginary of neoliberal sustainability is characterized by a belief that the impactfulness of market-based solutions like fair trade standards and voluntary certification schemes relies on the transparency and traceability of those supply chains. Achieving transparency and traceability, however, relies on the collection, analysis
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Immaterial Support: Whiteness, Stings, and the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-09-21 Zac Parker
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State Surveillance of Violent Extremism and Threats of White Supremacist Violence in Sweden Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-09-21 Amir Rostami,Tina Askanius
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Surveillance Punitivism: Colonialism, Racism, and State Terrorism in Spain Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-09-21 Aitor Jimenez,Ekaitz Cancela
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The Noise of Silent Machines: A Case Study of LinkNYC Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-06-25 Audrey Amsellem
In early 2016, the city of New York and the Google-backed consortium CityBridge launched LinkNYC, a communication network that enables residents and visitors to access Wi-Fi, charge their phones, and make domestic calls—all for free. The ten-feet tall kiosks scattered around the city are also equipped with screens, cameras, a tablet, speakers, and a microphone. Almost immediately after its launch,
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Emergency Infrastructure and Locational Extraction: Problematizing Computer Assisted Dispatch Systems as Public Good Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-06-25 James N. Gilmore,McKinley DuRant
This article analyzes the increasing articulation between third-party software and emergency infrastructures through a focus on the computer-assisted dispatch system RapidDeploy, which purports to help 9-1-1 responders more accurately and efficiently respond to emergency situations. We build from research that focuses on overlaps between surveillance and emergency response to demonstrate how large-scale
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Review of Mountz’s The Death of Asylum: The Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-06-25 Brandy Cochrane
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Smart Prisoners: Uses of Electronic Monitoring in Brazilian Prisons during the COVID-19 Pandemic Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-06-25 Maria Rita Pereira Xavier,Ana Paula Ferreira Felizardo,Fábio Wellington Ataíde Alves
This paper discusses the electronic monitoring (EM) of indicted and convicted citizens in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic. We start by discussing how EM was implemented in the country and describing its close link with the technology company Spacecom. We argue that the use of EM to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 in the Brazilian prison system intensifies the continuation of an uninterrupted mechanism
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The Case for a Ban on Facial Recognition Surveillance in Canada Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-06-25 Tim McSorley
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Modulation Harms and The Google Home Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-06-25 Mark Burdon,Tegan Cohen
Deleuze’s (1992) modulation is frequently invoked to explain power relations in hyper-connected, sensorised environments. However, attempts to articulate the harmful implications of modulation—a critical step in the process of considering the need for legal intervention—have been modest. In this paper, we theorise four harms arising from the exercise of modulatory power: subsumption, amplification
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How to Watch the Watchers? Democratic Oversight of Algorithmic Police Surveillance in Belgium Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-06-25 Rosamunde Van Brakel
In the last decade and more recently triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, algorithmic surveillance technologies have been increasingly implemented and experimented with by the police for crime control, public order policing, and as management tools. Police departments are also increasingly consumers of surveillance technologies that are created, sold, and controlled by private companies. They exercise
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Smart Cities as Surveillance Theatre Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-06-25 Lucas Melgaço,Rosamunde Van Brakel
In this opinion piece, we challenge the dominating view that surveillance in smart cities is driven by surveillance capitalism alone. Whilst this literature unpicks important factors and trends, we argue that a focus on surveillance capitalism as a sole driver risks ignoring the more intricate realities of surveillance assemblages. They are often propelled by many different desires and power relations
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Data Trusts and the Governance of Smart Environments: Lessons from the Failure of Sidewalk Labs’ Urban Data Trust Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-06-25 Lisa Austin,David Lie
Data trusts are an increasingly popular proposal for managing complex data governance questions, although what they are remains contested. Sidewalk Labs proposed creating an “Urban Data Trust” as part of the Sidewalk Toronto “smart” redevelopment of a portion of Toronto’s waterfront. This part of its proposal was rejected before Sidewalk Labs cancelled the project. This research note briefly places
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Review of Pallitto’s Bargaining with the Machine: Technology, Surveillance, and the Social Contract Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-06-25 Breigha Adeyemo
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Review of Brayne’s Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-06-25 Daniel Konikoff
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The The Making of Crime Predictions: Sociotechnical Assemblages and the Controversies of Governing Future Crime Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-06-25 Daniel Edler Duarte
We are witnessing an upsurge in crime forecasting software, which supposedly draws predictive knowledge from data on past crime. Although prevention and anticipation are already embedded in the apparatuses of government, going beyond a mere abstract aspiration, the latest innovations hold out the promise of replacing police officers’ “gut feelings” and discretionary risk assessments with algorithmic-powered
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On the Value of the Counterfactual and How the Smart Home Informs It Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-06-25 Anders T. Christensen,Henning Olesen,Lene Sørensen
Few of us have time to ponder the existential risks of a new technology like that embodied by smart home devices. The enthusiasm for the features they offer easily overpowers any skepticism one might feel. The companies pushing smart home technology are of little help in this regard, as they always seem to prioritize minimizing the effort required to acquire and set it up. In this opinion piece, we
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“Smart” Educational Technology: A Conversation between sava saheli singh, Jade E. Davis, and Chris Gilliard Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-06-25 Sava saheli Singh,Jade E. Davis,Chris Gilliard
A conversation about smart technology use in educational settings.
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Review of Lennon’s Passwords: Philology, Security, Authentication Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-06-25 Mitch K. Jackson
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Data Management for Platform-Mediated Public Services: Challenges and Best Practices Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-03-05 Agnieszka Rychwalska,Geoffrey Goodell,Magdalena Roszczynska-Kurasinska
Data harvesting and profiling have become a de facto business model for many businesses in the digital economy. The surveillance of individual persons through their use of private sector platforms has a well-understood effect on personal autonomy and democratic institutions. In this article, we explore the consequences of implementing data-rich services in the public sector and, specifically, the dangers
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Negotiations of In/Visibility: Surveillance in Hito Steyerl’s How Not to be Seen Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-03-05 Joachim Friis
In this paper, I analyze Hito Steyerl’s artwork How Not to be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File (2013) from the perspective of surveillance. Looking back at one of the most influential artworks of the last decade, I understand How Not to be Seen as a discursive practice using images that poses an ambivalent surveillance critique through media- and wordplay. I first outline the historical
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Israel’s Mass Surveillance during COVID-19: A Missed Opportunity Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-03-05 Avi Marciano
This paper argues that ISA mass surveillance of citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic constitutes a turning point for Israel, both in its formation as a surveillance society and in revalidating its security-oriented, militaristic tendencies.
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Nontargets: Understanding the Apathy Towards the Israeli Security Agency’s COVID-19 Surveillance Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-03-05 Shaul A Duke
This article tackles one of the latest—but nonetheless baffling—displays of public apathy towards surveillance: that of much of the Israeli public towards the decision to recruit the Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet) to do COVID-19 contact tracing during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The case of a secretive state agency being authorized to do surveillance on its citizens for a strictly non-security-related
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Review of Trottier, Gabdulhakov, and Huang’s Introducing Vigilant Audiences Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-03-05 Shaul A Duke
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Review of Taylor, Sharma, Martin, and Jameson’s Data Justice and COVID-19: Global Perspectives Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-03-05 Jonathan Cinnamon
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Introduction: Surveillance and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Views from Around the World Surveillance & Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-03-05 Bryce Newell
Introduction to Dialogue section on "Surveillance and the COVID-19 Pandemic."