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For the moment Oscar Gandy's The Panoptic Sort: A Political Economy of Personal Information (Boulder: Westview 1992) offers an introduction to the more dystopian visions of privacy abuse.

For barcodes see in particular Stephen Brown's Revolution at the Checkout Counter: The Explosion of the Bar Code (Cambridge: Harvard Uni Press 1997)







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