The Surveillance Century

Name: The Surveillance Century
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ISBN: 9789347436499

How Data Replaced the Spy

Ronan Khoury

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English

Vij Books
20 January 2026

Media studies; Politics & government; Computer security

A face misread by a camera. A protest mapped by a hashtag. A loan denied by a score no one can see. The quiet shift from spies to systems has turned everyday data into leverage, and most of us do not know where the levers are.

This book is a clear guide to how mass surveillance actually works across platforms and states, why social media intelligence can outpace traditional tradecraft, and how predictive policing moves error into policy. It explains the incentives behind state surveillance and cyber espionage, shows where algorithmic control and algorithmic governance shape opportunity and risk, and points to practical ways to defend digital rights and data privacy without retreating from modern life. For readers in policy, business, journalism, and civic life, it offers a grounded map of systems rather than slogans.

You will finish with a usable mental model: where data comes from, how it is fused, who benefits, and how to push for restraint inside institutions. It is a field manual for dignity in a world built for surveillance capitalism.

By: Ronan Khoury
Imprint: Vij Books
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 476g
ISBN: 9789347436499
ISBN 10: 9347436496
Pages: 228
Publication Date: 20 January 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ronan Khoury is a Lebanese-French historian of cyber intelligence whose work traces how power migrated from listening posts to lines of code. After years as a digital analyst contributing to international investigations, he now writes about the politics of platforms, policing, and privacy, focusing on how unseen systems sort ordinary people. Raised between Beirut and Marseille, he draws on a Levantine tradition of border-crossing scholarship and the Mediterranean habit of reading empires by their ports and cables. His mission is simple: to make complex infrastructures legible so that citizens, not only technicians, can argue for limits and accountability. Khoury's essays and lectures examine how incentives, not intentions, drive surveillance, and how practical guardrails can protect both safety and dignity without surrendering to fatalism.