Surveillance, Snowden, and Big Data: Capacities, consequences, critique

Big Data and Society

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Lyon, David ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Big Data; control; ethics; privacy; Snowden; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

EID: 85074188933     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20539517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2053951714541861     Document Type: Article

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