Private security and surveillance: From the "dossier society" to database networks

Surveillance as Social Sorting: Privacy, Risk and Automated Discrimination

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 226-248

  Marquis, Greg ^a  

^a Canadian Alcohol Policy   (Canada)

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