Pandemic Surveillance-David Lyon

Pandemic SurveillanceAuthor(s): David Lyon\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Polity Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9781509550319, 978-1509550319\nSynopsis\nThe COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted life as we knew it. Lockdowns, self-isolation and quarantine have become a normal part of everyday life. Pandemic surveillance allows governments and corporations to monitor and surveil the spread of the virus and to make sure citizens follow the measures they put in place. This is evident in the massive, unprecedented mobilization of public health data to contain and combat the virus, and the ballooning of surveillance technologies such as contact-tracing apps, facial recognition, and population tracking. This can also be seen as a pandemicofsurveillance.\n\n In this timely book, David Lyon tracks the development of these methods, examining different forms of pandemic surveillance, in health-related and other areas, from countries around the world. He explores their benefit.