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Front Matter
5 chapters2
Part I: Foundations
6 chapters- Part 1: Foundations of Surveillance
- Chapter 1: What Is Surveillance? Defining the Watcher and the Watched
- Chapter 2: The Panopticon — Bentham's Dream, Foucault's Nightmare
- Chapter 3: Pre-Modern Surveillance — Spies, Confessionals, and Census Rolls
- Chapter 4: The Industrial Eye — Factory Floors, Time Cards, and Scientific Management
- Chapter 5: Power, Knowledge, and the Gaze — Theoretical Frameworks for Surveillance
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Part II: State Surveillance
6 chapters- Part 2: State Surveillance — The Most Powerful Watcher
- Chapter 6: The National Security State — From COINTELPRO to PRISM
- Chapter 7: Border Control and Biometric Databases
- Chapter 8: CCTV and the Surveilled City
- Chapter 9: Intelligence Agencies and Mass Interception
- Chapter 10: Authoritarianism and Total Surveillance — China's Social Credit System
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Part III: Commercial Surveillance
6 chapters- Part 3: Commercial Surveillance
- Chapter 11: The Data Economy — Your Attention Is the Product
- Chapter 12: Browser Cookies, Tracking Pixels, and the Third-Party Data Ecosystem
- Chapter 13: Social Media as Observation Tower
- Chapter 14: Behavioral Targeting and Real-Time Bidding
- Chapter 15: Smart Devices and the Internet of Things
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Part IV: Domestic and Personal Surveillance
6 chapters- Part 4: Domestic and Personal Surveillance
- Chapter 16: Ring Doorbells and the Privatization of Public Watching
- Chapter 17: Baby Monitors, Nanny Cams, and the Surveilled Home
- Chapter 18: Smartphone Surveillance: Location Data and Digital Exhaust
- Chapter 19: Relationship Surveillance: Stalkerware, Parental Controls, and Trust
- Chapter 20: Self-Surveillance: The Quantified Self and Voluntary Monitoring
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Part V: Environmental and Scientific Surveillance
6 chapters- Part 5: Environmental and Scientific Surveillance
- Chapter 21: Satellite Imagery and Remote Sensing
- Chapter 22: Birdsong Monitoring and Environmental Surveillance
- Chapter 23: Weather Surveillance and Climate Monitoring
- Chapter 24: Epidemiological Surveillance — Tracking Disease and Population
- Chapter 25: Urban Sensors and Smart City Infrastructure
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Part VI: Workplace Surveillance
6 chapters- Part 6: Workplace Surveillance
- Chapter 26: Performance Reviews and the Measured Employee
- Chapter 27: Remote Work Surveillance — Screenshot Tools and Productivity Monitoring
- Chapter 28: Algorithmic Management — When the Boss Is an AI
- Chapter 29: HR Analytics and Predictive Hiring
- Chapter 30: Whistleblowing, Dissent, and Organizational Surveillance
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Part VII: Resistance, Ethics, and Futures
6 chapters- Part 7: Resistance, Ethics, and Futures
- Chapter 31: Privacy as a Right: Legal Frameworks and Constitutional Protections
- Chapter 32: Counter-Surveillance: Encryption, Anonymization, and Obfuscation
- Chapter 33: Art and Activism Against Surveillance
- Chapter 34: Surveillance Capitalism and Its Critics
- Chapter 35: Facial Recognition: The Face as a Data Point
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Part VIII: Capstone and Synthesis
6 chapters- Part 8: Capstone and Synthesis
- Chapter 36: Racial Surveillance and the Discriminatory Gaze
- Chapter 37: Children Under the Gaze: Schools, Apps, and Protective vs. Controlling Surveillance
- Chapter 38: The Future of Surveillance: Predictive Policing, AI, and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Chapter 39: Designing for Privacy: Architecture, Technology, and Policy Responses
- Chapter 40: Living Under the Gaze — Synthesis and Student Manifesto
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Appendices
10 chapters- Glossary of Key Terms
- Bibliography
- Appendix A: Research Methods in Surveillance Studies
- Appendix B: Landmark Studies in Surveillance Research
- Appendix C: Guide to Reading the Primary Sources
- Appendix D: Privacy Tools and Resource Directory
- Appendix E: Legal Frameworks Quick Reference
- Appendix F: Frequently Asked Questions
- Appendix G: Python Surveillance Analytics
- Answers to Selected Exercises
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