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Surveillance, Surveillance Studies, and Cyber Criminality

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This chapter examines the numerous connections between cybercrime and surveillance. The use of surveillance to detect and disrupt cybercrime, the theft and other illegal use of the artifacts of surveillance as a variety of cybercrime, as well as criminal types of surveillance are among many ways in which the two relate. This chapter offers a holistic look at surveillance and cybercrime by looking at both theoretical insights from literatures, like critical surveillance studies and behavioral surveillance of consumers for marketing, as well as emerging practical issues in surveillance-related cybercrime, like “sextortion” and the use of remote access trojans or RATs.

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Nussbaum, B., Sebastian Udoh, E. (2020). Surveillance, Surveillance Studies, and Cyber Criminality. In: Holt, T., Bossler, A. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of International Cybercrime and Cyberdeviance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78440-3_16

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