The Surveillance Studies Network (some information here) has released its â??A Report on the Surveillance Societyâ?? (editor: David Murakami Wood, authors: Kirstie Ball, David Lyon, David Murakami Wood, Clive Norris & Charles Raab)
The report consists of five sections entitled:
Introducing the Surveillance Society
A Survey of the Surveillance Society
A Week in the Life of the Surveillance Society 2006
Glimpses of Life in the Surveillance Society 2016
Regulating the Surveillance Society
Download the report as a PDF here.
The BBC website has a short readable list of ways in which surveillance takes place in addition to a news article on the new report.
In relation to this see also Privacy International and the results of their international survey. This survey showa that the UK is among the nations which have the worst protection of privacy rights. Or to put it in a more positive light â?? the UK is one of the leading surveillance states.