Spying With Maps by Mark Monmonier, University of Chicago Press, $27.50, ISBN 0226534278
PARTY-throwing people often send out maps so guests can find their way to the fun. In this fascinating book on mapping, Mark Monmonier deals with the other side of the coin: locational privacy, the desire or right to stay off the map to escape what he calls “dataveillance”.
Although Monmonier deals with such obvious privacy issues as the increasingly ubiquitous video camera, he is even more interested in the linked databases that help governments, police forces, banks and marketing firms keep tabs on us all.
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