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Truth
Truth is a vast topic, the subject of whole treatises, especially in philosophy. Here, the topic will be limited to a discussion of aspects of the truth concept that are particularly salient when considering surveillance. After undertaking a thorough discussion about the various understandings of truth and relativism, this entry will consider the following surveillance contexts: policiary surveillance, benchmarking as managerial surveillance, and targeted advertising through commercial surveillance. The aim of this entry is to provide tools for reflection when assessing a proposal to implement surveillance.
Main Positions in Discussions About Truth
Our everyday concept of truth is primarily that of factuality: statements in accordance with objective reality. But that begs the question, “What is objective reality?” There are various understandings of how we can know ...
- Digital Cultures, Cybercommunities, and Simulated Selves
- Hunger Games, The
- Matrix, The
- Minority Report
- Advertising and Marketing Research
- Apple
- ATM Cards
- Big Data
- Botnets
- Cloud Computing
- Cookies
- Creeping
- Cyberbullying
- Cybercities
- Cybermarketing
- Cybermurder
- Cyberprostitution
- Cyberstalking
- Cybertheft
- Data-Doubles
- Dataveillance
- Digital Divide
- Digital Passwords
- Drug Trafficking
- Dumpster Diving
- Electronic Harassment
- Fast Capitalism
- Global Mobility
- Global Village
- Google Earth
- Infotainment
- Internet Pornography
- Jennicam
- Machine Learning
- Myspace
- Narcissism
- News Media
- Online Shopping
- Open Source Computing
- Paparazzi
- Play-Dates and Play-Spaces
- Scandals, Political
- Scanners
- Sexting
- Smartphones
- Social Media
- Spectacle, The
- Stuxnet Virus
- Swatting Hack
- Texting
- Totalitarian Surveillance Societies
- Unregulated Cyber Currencies
- Voyeurism, Digital
- YouTube
- Ethical Issues and Research Directions in Surveillance, Security, and Privacy
- Agency
- Autonomy
- Choice: Security or Civil Liberties
- Citizenship
- Commodification of the Body
- Community
- Cosmopolitanism
- Crime
- Deviance
- Equality
- Ethics
- Fear, Culture of
- Global Justice
- Governing Through Crime
- Knowledge
- Law
- Moral Panic
- Morality
- Politics
- Power
- Privacy
- Punishment
- Researching Cybercrime
- Responsibility
- Risk Society Thesis
- Social Justice
- Social Network Analysis
- Sociality
- Society of Captives Thesis
- Sovereignty
- Subjectivity
- Surveillance Art
- Surveillance, Culture of
- Surveillant Assemblage
- Transparency
- Truth
- History and Philosophy of Surveillance Studies
- Adorno, Theodor W.
- Beck, Ulrech
- Benjamin, Walter
- Bentham, Jeremy
- Bioengineering
- Bioinformatics
- Communication Studies
- Constructivism
- Copenhagen School
- Critical Security Studies
- Cultural Studies
- Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari
- Fascism
- Foucault, Michel
- Frankfurt School
- Franklin, Benjamin
- Garland, David
- Globalization
- Goffman, Erving
- Gramsci, Antonio
- Hobbes, Thomas
- Hoover, J. Edgar
- International Relations Theory
- Kafka, Franz
- Latour, Bruno
- Locke, John
- Marx, Gary T.
- Marxism
- Modernism
- Nazism
- Neuroscience and Brain Biology
- Orwell, George
- Political Psychology
- Poststructural Theory
- Situationists
- Social Control
- Surveillance, Theories of
- Industries and Institutions of Surveillance and/or Security
- Aerial Reconnaissance and Surveillance
- Alcoholics Anonymous
- Biopolitical Tattooing
- Biosurveillance
- Breathometer and Breathalyzer Machines
- Closed-Circuit Television
- Drones, Commercial Applications of
- Drug Testing Kits
- Emergency Alert Systems
- Eugenics Industrial Complex
- Intelligence Community
- Law and Digital Technology
- Lie Detector Instrumentation
- Life Sciences Surveillance and Security
- Methadone Maintenance
- New Penology
- Offender Reentry Programs
- Parole
- Policing and Society
- Private Law Enforcement
- Private Prisons
- Probation
- Psychological Assessment
- Punishment and Society
- Radio-Frequency Identification Devices
- Sex Offender Registries
- Specialty Courts for Domestic Violence
- Specialty Courts for Mental Health
- Specialty Courts for Substance Abuse
- Threat Assessment
- Victim-Offender Mediation
- Place, Space, and the Body
- Abortion
- Berlin Wall
- Biometrics
- Capital Punishment
- Castration, Chemical
- Castration, Surgical
- Chain Gangs
- Citywide Sweeps of the Homeless
- Concentration Camps
- Death Row
- Disease Model in Psychiatry
- DNA Technology
- Drug Therapy
- Electronic Restraint Devices
- Fingerprints
- Governmentality
- Incapacitation
- Internment Camps
- Life Without Parole
- Mass Incarceration
- Mental Health Inpatient Facilities
- Panopticon, The
- Parental Surveillance
- Plethysmograph
- Prison and Jail Segregation Units
- Prisons and Jails
- Riot Control
- Solitary Confinement
- Stigma
- Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities
- Supermax Prisons
- Surveillance Deterrence
- Synopticon, The
- Tasers and Other Less-Than-Lethal Devices
- Women, Girls, and the Body
- Wrist and Ankle Monitoring Devices
- Youth Detention Centers and Facilities
- Security, Civil Liberties, and the Law
- Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
- Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010)
- Hepting v. AT&T
- Katz v. United States (1967)
- Kyllo v. U.S. (2001)
- Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
- Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California (1976)
- United States v. Jones (2012)
- United States v. Miller (1976)
- United States v. Spy Factory, Inc. (1997)
- Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006
- AMBER Alerts
- American Civil Liberties Union and Electronic Privacy Information Center
- American Protective League
- Amnesty International
- Anarchism
- Anti-Defamation League
- Bill of Rights
- Civil Commitment
- Civil Liberties
- Civil Rights Movement
- Corporate Personhood
- European Convention on Human Rights
- Federal Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act
- Free Speech
- Freedom of Expression
- Freedom of Information Act
- Habeas Corpus
- Hate Crimes
- Home Surveillance
- Insanity
- Intellectual Property Rights
- Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act
- Legal Moralism
- Megan’s Law
- Mental Disability Laws
- Paternalism and Parens Patriae
- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010
- Political Action Committees
- Privacy Act of 1974
- Privacy, Internet
- Privacy, Medical
- Privacy, Right to
- Privacy, Types of
- Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993
- Search and Seizure
- Sex Offender Laws
- Sex Offender Registries
- Social Contract Theory
- Stand Your Ground Laws
- U.S. Constitution
- Vagrancy Laws
- Violence against Women Act
- Voting
- Warrants
- Security, Governance, and Democracy
- Central Intelligence Agency
- COINTELPRO
- Cybersecurity Legislation
- E-Government
- Eminent Domain
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
- Immigration and Naturalization Service
- INTERPOL
- Iran-Contra Affair
- KGB
- Libertarian Party
- National Security
- National Security Agency
- National Security Agency Leaks
- National Security Council
- PATRIOT Act
- Republican Party
- Secure Fence Act of 2006
- Securities and Exchange Commission
- Securitization
- Spies
- Tea Party
- Traitors
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- U.S. Secret Service
- U.S. Transportation Security Administration
- United Nations
- Warrants
- Watergate and White House Tapes
- WikiLeaks
- Surveillance and Everyday Life
- Surveillance & Society
- Airport Security
- Airport Terminal Security Screenings
- Beijing, China, Surveillance in
- Cell Phone Tracking
- Chicago, Illinois, Surveillance in
- Corporate Surveillance
- Drug Testing
- Gated Communities
- Highway and Interstate Surveillance
- Houston, Texas, Surveillance in
- London, England, Surveillance in
- Mountain Surveillance
- Movie Theater Security
- Municipal Surveillance
- New York, New York, Surveillance in
- Parks
- Passenger Data
- Passenger Profiling
- Public Health, Surveillance in
- Security Screenings at Sporting Events
- Shopping Mall Security
- Social Sorting
- Surveillance Investigator
- Synology Surveillance Station
- Telemetric Policing
- Vehicle Tracking Systems
- Surveillance, Identity, and Controlling Populations
- Abu Ghraib
- Al Qaeda
- Ancient Greek Surveillance
- Apartheid
- Berlin Wall
- Biblical Surveillance
- Blockades
- Border Patrol Checkpoints
- Catholic Church and the Sexual Abuse of Minors
- Crime Control
- Crime Mapping
- Cults
- Curfews
- Data Mining and Profiling in Big Data
- Data Mining and Profiling in Social Network Analysis
- Deportation
- Domestic Terrorist Groups
- Global Surveillance
- Guantanamo Bay
- Hamas
- Human Trafficking
- Identity Politics
- Immigration
- McCarthyism
- Neighborhood Watch Programs and Citizen Patrol
- Police State
- Profiling, Racial
- Protection Orders
- Religion
- School Surveillance: College and Universities
- School Surveillance: Primary and Secondary Schools
- Segregation, Residential
- Self-Deportation
- Slave Trade
- Smart Borders
- Stop and Frisk
- Taliban
- Traffic Control
- UFO Surveillance (History, Purpose, Examples)
- Surveillance, Security, and Privacy Around the World
- Tools, Practices, and Decisions of Surveillance and Security Politics
- Monitor Versus Merrimac
- 9/11
- Authoritarianism
- Berlin Wall
- Camp David Accords
- Carrier Pigeons
- Civil War
- Cold War
- Colonialism
- Counterintelligence
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Cyberwar
- Détente
- Dictators and Dictatorships
- Diplomacy
- Diplomatic Envoys
- Disinformation Campaigns
- Drone Strikes
- Electronic Surveillance
- Embargoes
- Espionage
- Espionage in Ancient Egypt
- Glasnost
- Information Warfare
- International Diplomacy
- Iranian Hostage Crisis (1979)
- Martial Law
- Medieval Castles
- Military Industrial Complex
- Military Intelligence
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- Nuclear Treaties
- Nuclear War
- Paramilitarization
- Peace Talks and Peace Agreements
- Perestroika
- Postcolonialism
- Propaganda
- Special Operation Forces
- Surveillance Art
- Surveillance During the Age of Reason
- Surveillance During the Cold War
- Surveillance During World War I and World War II
- Terrorism
- Tet Offensive
- Torture
- Truman Doctrine
- U.N. Peacekeeping and Security Forces
- War on Drugs
- War on Terror
- Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Trade in Surveillance, the Business of Security, and Strategies of Dissent
- Anonymous
- Antiglobalization
- Antinuclear Movement
- Antipsychiatry Movement
- Antiwar Movement, History in the United States
- Antiwar Protest Surveillance, 1960s
- Arab Spring
- Civil Disobedience
- Computer Surveillance
- Copwatch
- Environmental Security
- Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection
- Health Management Organizations
- Identity Theft
- Information Security
- International Monetary Fund
- Inverse Surveillance
- Network Security
- New Penology
- Political Dissidents
- Port Security
- Psychotherapy
- Revolutions and Revolts
- Security Theater
- Security, Concepts of
- Smuggling
- Sousveillance
- Technology
- Watchdog Groups
- Whistle-Blowers
- Work Surveillance
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