The Private Security State?: Surveillance, Consumer Data and the War on Terror

The Private Security State?: Surveillance, Consumer Data and the War on Terror
ISBN-10
8763003325
ISBN-13
9788763003322
Category
Political Science
Pages
244
Language
English
Published
2015-03-25
Authors
Sally Dibb, Elizabeth Daniel, Kirstie Ball

Description

When businesses are required to send customer data to government, their systems and their employees become part of a wider security framework. Their commercial activities become shot through with insecurities and they are placed in a kind of double jeopardy: a failure to address these regulations can result in both national and commercial insecurity. The Private Security State? is the first full-length academic text to address the enrolment of the private sector in national security surveillance regimes. Through detailed empirical analysis, it questions how private organizations achieve compliance with demands for customer data. The book revolves around case studies of two public-private surveillance regimes: Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Terror Finance in retail financial services and the EBorders in the retail travel industry.

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