Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life Highlight

The reason I opt for monitoring and tracking instead is that surveillance is usually associated with a set of political assumptions; namely, that monitoring is performed “from above” as subjects of surveillance are monitored by those in authority or more powerful than them for purposes of behavior modification or social control as sought or determined by those conducting the surveillance. Although surveillance studies are an important neighboring field, my initial goal here is to describe a range of technology-based systems and practices (“socio-technical” systems) without simultaneously theorizing about the uses to which they are put.