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ERIC Number: EJ400416
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1989
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The Surveillance Society: Information Technology and Bureaucratic Social Control.
Gandy, Oscar H., Jr.
Journal of Communication, v39 n3 p61-76 Sum 1989
Describes how communications and information technologies are being used to increase the reach and influence of bureaucratic surveillance, creating an increasing inequality between those who provide and those who gather personal information. Argues that the current legal system is hopelessly inadequate to the challenge of controlling the "technologies of control." (SR)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Bureaucracy, Business, Communication Research, Communications, Data Collection, Employer Employee Relationship, Federal Government, Federal Legislation, Information Technology, Privacy, State Government
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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