Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Cellular Convergence and the Death of Privacy


Stephen B. Wicker (Cornell University). Cellular Convergence and the Death of Privacy (Oxford University Press, 2013).  

"Cellular technology has always been a surveillance technology, but 'cellular convergence'—the tendency for all forms of communication to devolve onto the cellular handset—has dramatically increased the impact of that surveillance. . . . The story [Wicker] tells is one of a technology that is changing the face of politics and economics, but in ways that remain highly uncertain." 
Cellular Convergence book jacket