Understanding Surveillance Technologies: Spy Devices, Privacy, History, & Applications, Revised and Expanded Second Edition

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Understanding Surveillance Technologies: Spy Devices, Privacy, History, & Applications, Revised and Expanded Second Edition

This book, now in its second edition, with 1,000 pages and more than 700 diagrams, is still the only text that comprehensively conveys the breadth of the field.

By J.K. Petersen,

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Reflects recent developments in strategies, policies, and legislation in national, local, and private security

Discusses hotly debated personal security and privacy issues regarding mass surveillance strategies

Covers RFID identification chips, cell phones with GPS systems, computerized methods for scientific imaging with radar, and Voice over IP (VoIP)

Discusses DNA surveillance and portable DNA detection kits

Includes a free downloadable curriculum guide to the Website for further information and instruction

Understanding Surveillance Technologies demystifies spy devices and describes how technology is used to observe and record intimate details of people's lives-often without their knowledge or consent. From historical origins to current applications, it explains how satellites, pinhole cameras, cell phone and credit card logs, DNA kits, tiny microphones ("bugs"), chemical sniffers, and implanted RF/ID chips have enabled us to create a two-edged sword-devices that promise security while, at the same time, eroding our privacy.

Understanding Surveillance Technologies is profusely illustrated with extensive references and indexes, laying the groundwork for more specialized texts on specific technologies. It covers each of the major sensing devices and explains how they are used in civilian, criminal justice, scientific, national security, and military applications. It also includes recent changes in legislation and the organization of the intelligence community, and discusses how equal access to high-tech sensing devices and encryption schemes has changed society.

Understanding Surveillance Technologies is modular, so the chapters can be read in any order, and is written in an accessible, somewhat narrative style, to suit the needs of journalists/newscasters, privacy organizations, educators, civic planners, and technology centers. It is appropriate as an adjunct reference for criminal justice/law enforcement/military, and forensic trainees, and as a textbook for courses in Surveillance Studies, Sociology, Communications, and Political Science. Now in its second edition, with 1,000 pages and more than 700 diagrams, it is still the only text that comprehensively conveys the breadth of the field.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Introduction & Overview
Acoustic Surveillance
Audio
Infra/Ultrasound
Sonar
Electromagnetic Surveillance
Radio
Radar
Infrared
Visual
Aerial
Ultraviolet
X-Rays
Chemical & Biological Surveillance
Chemical & Biological
Biometrics
Animals
Genetics
Miscellaneous Surveillance
Magnetic
Cryptologic
Computers
Index

Publication Date: 2/5/2007
Number of Pages: 1024