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Nano-Technology and Privacy: On Continuous Surveillance Outside the Panopticon 

Authors: Jeroen Van Den Hoven a; Pieter E. Vermaas a
Affiliation:   a Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
DOI: 10.1080/03605310701397040
Publication Frequency: 6 issues per year
Published in: journal Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Volume 32, Issue 3 May 2007 , pages 283 - 297
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The circumstances under which this title is published have changed:

Reason for change: Changed Publisher
Now published by: Oxford University Press
Date of change: 2008



Abstract

We argue that nano-technology in the form of invisible tags, sensors, and Radio Frequency Identity Chips (RFIDs) will give rise to privacy issues that are in two ways different from the traditional privacy issues of the last decades. One, they will not exclusively revolve around the idea of centralization of surveillance and concentration of power, as the metaphor of the Panopticon suggests, but will be about constant observation at decentralized levels. Two, privacy concerns may not exclusively be about constraining information flows but also about designing of materials and nano-artifacts such as chips and tags. We begin by presenting a framework for structuring the current debates on privacy, and then present our arguments.
Keywords: RFID; privacy; nano-technology; surveillance; panopticon
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