ABSTRACT
The growth of a surveillance-industrial complex over recent decades has had significant implications for the political economy of personal information. Within the field of surveillance studies there has been an engagement with these issues at a macro level in relation to the delineation of the complex itself (e.g. Hayes 2012; Stanley 2004) and in the development of a range of conceptual resources, for example post-panoptical theories (e.g. Haggerty and Ericson 2000). However, the implications of these developments for subjectivity have received less attention. Although there is now a burgeoning surveillance studies literature, only a relatively small proportion of work consists of empirical research of people's everyday experiences of surveillance practices.
