Selling Us the Fortress of Techno-Security Equipment for Schools: Routledge.www.routledge-ny.com, $24.95 This book explains how technologies once reserved primarily for war have become a common fixture An article in the nature of Personal Property which has been so annexed to the realty that it is regarded as a part of the real property. That which is fixed or attached to something permanently as an appendage and is not removable. of even schools. It explores the results and implications of metal detectors, surveillance cameras networked to the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the and other techno-security devices. It takes readers back to the founding of national research laboratories in the U.S. and the development of spy technologies. It also analyzes the ways such equipment is sold and addresses how policies and laws have supported the public use of techno-security. |
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