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Inside the Corporate PanopticonEconomic surveillance is the more important part of the surveillanceManifests in labor, management, credit, consumer knowledgeWorking on a book1935 small town - total fingerprint surveillanceHad been controversial but was established by the '30s. By this time there were 10million files and and by '45 there were 100 million. Young Hooverexpanded it drastically.The argument of "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" was made52,000 prints were collected and sent in after an enormous driveIs this fear and paranoia in a small American town?Yep. It happened in Berkeley, CA. These are broaderSurveillance is not always imposed from the outside; it is often something we do toourselves.Surv is a tool of social knowledge - gathering, sorting, maintaining of it is modern.Only over the past two hundred years have these demands arisen - a result of adistended society of relationships.Surv accompanied the shift from closeknit societies to urban ones of strangersWe have little personal information, surveillance provides impersonal informationOur lives are enabled via surv - birth cert, ssn, dmv, etc.Those cut off from surv are cut off from the social benefits (illegal immigrants)Married women before the 70s were cut out from credit market because they couldnt getindividual creditBut we can be excluded via surv - policeMemory hole in 1984 as dangerous because it is the lack of surveillance of the state.same story in kafka's the trial because he cannot see the file.Surv'd facts are often limited and out of contextTry to get the system to see us as we are, not as it wants to represent us. But inexplaining ourselves, we are caught in the web.Mac 1984 ad plays to the myth that surv is easy to attack and seeModern economy runs on information. Much surv focuses on state, but commerce survstooSurv isnt brought about via one decider or technology. Surv grows on itself.Scientific knowledge can be transformed to surv, too (dna, etc.)Fingerprinting was taken to by eugenicists (Galton)Much of surv seeks to measure and categorize the human body

Anecdote about shoe sizing science (xray)"needed level of exactitude"Transfered authority from customer to shoeWhat prevailed was not xray machines, but the branick foot measurers"When surv is to be done on a large scale, the cheap and easy to use techs increasethe spread of surv."Measuring of the body is implicated in far worse scenarios: slavery"strange technologies of surveillance" and with surv, strange often meet soft - paper,bit/bytes.Anything that augments memory/transfering info aids surv [what way does the flowhappen? intentional tech or incidental?]Kodak brought archivable surveillnce to the massesNewspapers brought wider circulation to photography, causing worse spread of privateinfoPrompted the first calls for privacy protection - Brandeis and Warren article - "right to beleft alone"privacy was now a matter for both government and private businesscorporations are giant information processing machines[short on time so moves on to labor]surv techniques were use in factories by a utopian welshman who sought "newharmony" where factory owned life and play, etc.by the 20th century, labor surv grew to facilitate info flow from floor to managerand personal lives were penetrated - ford.firms that invest in workers also raise the level of intrusion - efficiency experts, hr, drugtests, company towns, computer monitoring.calls into question those who think networked economy is more humane. he thinks it is ahigher form of surveillancescience of consumption - quant and psych methods"tell me what you buy and i will tell you who you are"focuses on predicting wants.surveillance categories capture the current zeitgeist - rice as female. muslim asterrorists.google continues a long time trendis surv a step towards panopticon or is it necessary to allow living in a globalized worldcredit reporting used to be investigation but in the 70s that started to change to constantsurveillance