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Focus: New book: Big Brother 2.0 08/05-2012
Peter Lauritsen has written a new book entitled Big Brother 2.0
The book argues that the surveillance society is not something to fear in the future, but quite to the contrary, we are already living in it. In Denmark, a small country of only 6 million inhabitants, there are 350,000 CCTVs. Information from our use of phones, internet, and email are routinely registered and logged. And it is still more common to identify yourself using fingerprints, facial structure, or pace characteristics.
Big Brother 2.0 describes the characteristics of the Danish surveillance society and discusses some of the central challenges we are faced with. We are not to take an naive attitude. Nor are we to be paranoid. Surveillance is necessary for a society to function, and there are close connections between caring and surveillance. The challenge, then, is to neither to reject nor embrace surveillance, but to learn how to use it right.
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