In your own words, unpack what the authors mean by this. Once you have explained what the authors mean, discuss some of the dangers this assemblage poses to our personal autonomy.
Question: During the second half of the course, we have examined research suggesting that the state’s current capacity to collect metadata is staggering. Ericson and Haggerty refer to it as a ‘surveillant assemblage.’ According to the authors: “This assemblage operates by abstracting human bodies from their territorial settings and separating them into a series of […]