Contemporary technology management practices for facilitating social regulation and surveillance

The goal of this research is to describe some of the most recent socially-relevant social control and surveillance practices carried out by governments, along with the irregular personal information management practices of corporations, through the use of Information and Communication Technologies in the European Union and North American regions. The research data have been taken from (academic, media, civil society and corporative) publications available from the beginning of the 2000s to the present. The findings show a wide variety of practices (e.g. mass surveillance or the violation of personal information privacy), which appear to be more institutionalised in North America, and particularly in the United States, than anywhere else in the European Union or Canada.