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HISTORICAL STATEWATCH PUBLICATION: On Globalisation of Control: Towards an Integrated Surveillance System in Europe by Thomas Mathiesen Professor of Sociology of law, University of Oslo (1999)

01 December 2011

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HISTORICAL STATEWATCH PUBLICATION: On Globalisation of Control: Towards an Integrated Surveillance System in Europe (pdf) by Thomas Mathiesen Professor of Sociology of law, University of Oslo (1999):

"During the past thirty years, the Western world has seen a tremendous development in information technology. The technology has changed our lives. But while we easily grasp the bright side of the information technology the mobile telephones we can avail ourselves of, the computers we can use, the Internet where we search for information and (mostly?) entertainment information technology also has a dark, dangerous side. Never in the history of mankind has there been a technology which so dearly has had a "double character" (to borrow an expression from Marx). The dark side comprises the use of the sophisticated and rapidly advancing technology for surveillance purposes, a surveillance which quickly is coming to a point where it threatens the democratic fibres of our societies."

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