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David Lyon Quotes

born 1948 Canada

David Lyon (born 1948) is a Canadian professor of sociology.

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Comint represents the effort to gain access to, intercept and process every important modern form of communication, in every significant sphere, and in many countries.

What a contrast with the lives of ordinary people at the start of twenty-first century! Today, everyday life is constantly monitored.

But the term surveillance society does have connotations that at least hint at possible negative consequences, in ways that unambiguously optimistic talk of "information societies" and "knowledge-based economies" does not. My point is rather that such societies are in part constituted by a surveillance dimension.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: David Lyon (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.