Pandemic Surveillance

Privacy, Security, and Data Ethics

Elgar Law, Technology and Society series

Edited by Margaret Hu, Professor of Law, William & Mary Law School, College of William & Mary, US

As the COVID-19 pandemic surged in 2020, questions of data privacy, cybersecurity, and the ethics of surveillance technologies centred an international conversation on the benefits and disadvantages of the appropriate uses and expansion of cyber surveillance and data tracking. This timely book examines and answers these important concerns.

‘Ruptures can help us see society in new ways. By interrogating the surveillance practices during the Covid-19 pandemic from different angles, the essays in this book insightfully reveal a range of challenges to privacy in a data-saturated world.’
– danah boyd, author of It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens