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     business and the panoptic sort

This page is under development.

For the moment Oscar Gandy's The Panoptic Sort: A Political Economy of Personal Information (Boulder: Westview 1992) offers an introduction to the more dystopian visions of privacy abuse.

For barcodes see in particular Stephen Brown's Revolution at the Checkout Counter: The Explosion of the Bar Code (Cambridge: Harvard Uni Press 1997)

     Credit Reporting

In the interim issues and legislation regarding consumer credit reporting, residential tenancy databases and resume verification services are explored in a supplementary profile here.

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