State surveillance as a threat to personal security of individuals

• Authors: Czapnik Sławomir
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Changes in modern society are crucial to individuals. Article starts with analysis of control in nowadays societies. Then author tries to understand useful categories, as "Panopticon", "ban-opticon" and "synopticon". Last part is focused on stete surveillance, i.e. surveillance by American National Security Agency.

Keywords

EN

surveillance; state apparatus; Ponopticon; National Security Agency

• Publisher: European Association for Security
• Journal: Securitologia
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 2 (22)
• Pages: 125-134

Dates

published

2015

Contributors

author

Czapnik Sławomir

• University of Opole, Opole, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.5604/18984509.1208245