ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how control is made possible through digitalization and how surveillance and control are carried out through digital technologies. Taken together, the authors illustrate how surveillance has become a much more diverse, widespread, and complex phenomenon through digitalization, as well as how surveillance technology now stretches into new arenas and surveils new groups of users. With digitalization, the authors must therefore broaden their understanding of surveillance and accept that it occurs in many more places and is carried out by many more actors than it used to be. Technology that gathers information on children's activities with the aim of fostering parents security is just one more way that childhood is tracked and surveilled through digitalization. Tracking children and tracking animals relies on the use of GPS technologies and the creation of virtual fences, and in both cases, the technology is used to generate data about where the subject under surveillance is.
