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Fitbit and participatory surveillance of the modern individual

Article
Nathalie Schabio
19/05/2021
10 minutes to read

This article sheds light on how Foucault's principle of the Panopticon can be applied to the digital age. The Fitbit app is more than a modern panopticon that shows that the 21st-century individual takes part in participatory surveillance.