À la trace
Enquête sur les nouveaux territoires de la surveillance
An investigative map of modern surveillance — from data brokers and facial recognition to contact-tracing — charting how continuous digital tracking became normal, by a French tech journalist.
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- Authors
- Olivier Tesquet
- Published
- 2020
- Publisher
- Premier Parallèle
- Pages
- 270
- Language
- French
Read this if
Readers who want a sharp, up-to-date investigation into the surveillance economy and state tracking, with concrete cases rather than abstraction.
Skip this if
Anyone after technical countermeasures; it's surveillance journalism and analysis, not a privacy how-to.
Key takeaways
- A 2020 investigative cartography of the new surveillance — data brokers, facial recognition, tracing.
- Tesquet reports with specifics, making the abstract surveillance economy concrete.
- Read for the landscape and the cases; pair with Nitot/Untersinger for what to do about it.
Notes
One of the most current French books on where surveillance actually happens now. Read it with Nitot's Surveillance:// and Untersinger's Anonymat for the fuller French privacy picture.
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