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Journal article
Hyper-Collection: A Possible New Paradigm in Modern Surveillance
Surveillance & society, Vol.21(2), pp.120-138
03/07/2023
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Abstract
Corporations and governments have been in the business of collecting personal information for decades. However, recent trends demonstrate a prevalence for "hyper-collection"-the collection, analysis, and use of more information than is needed for truly legitimate commercial or legal purposes and in covert or passive ways. This prevalence by corporate actors to hyper-collect personal information of citizens as consumers is merely the latest iteration of function creep, but it has significant implications that have not, to date, been explored in the literature. This article seeks to identify some of the implications of hyper-collection, its root causes, and mechanisms that countries might adopt to avoid such outcomes.
Details
- Title
- Hyper-Collection: A Possible New Paradigm in Modern Surveillance
- Creators
- Brendan Walker-Munro - The University of Queensland
- Publication Details
- Surveillance & society, Vol.21(2), pp.120-138
- Publisher
- Surveillance Studies Network
- Number of pages
- 19
- Identifiers
- 991013167113602368
- Copyright
- © The author(s), 2023| Licensed to the Surveillance Studies Network under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives license.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article