Big Data Surveillance: The Case of Policing

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from Part VI - Technology

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 August 2019

Sarah Brayne

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Tamara Rice Lave and

Eric J. Miller

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Tamara Rice Lave: Affiliation:
University of Miami School of Law
Eric J. Miller: Affiliation:
Loyola School of Law, Los Angeles

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In the past decade, two major structural developments intersected: the proliferation of surveillance in everyday life and the rise of “big data.”

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Information: The Cambridge Handbook of Policing in the United States , pp. 511 - 530

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