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9047302052 pdf In Making Surveillance Public law and philosophy scholar Marc Schuilenburg delivers a cogent, crisp, and convincing book on the challenges brought by AI and big data applications with respect to crime control and security. In contrast to governments reined in by law and ethics, the role of Google, Microsoft and Apple in crime and disorder prevention and detection is largely invisible. Schuilenburg documents the history, identifies the challenges, suggests useful concepts (data donation, algorithmic psychopower) and offers empirical examples such as Waze. Most importantly, he suggests how to think about the kinds of solutions needed in a radically changing control environment. The book is a valuable contribution to understanding the social embeddedness and consequences of seemingly neutral tools and the need for research and policy, in particular as this applies to private sector technology giants not traditionally seen as salient for crime control. The book is accessible to the general reader, but should be of particular interest to criminology, a field that has neglected the topic at its peril Read more