Jake Goldenfein is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell University, New York, and a lecturer at Swinburne Law School. A law and technology scholar exploring governance in computational society, Goldenfein has published across disciplines, with work appearing in Law and Critique, the Columbia Journal of Law and Arts, the Internet Policy Review, and the University of New South Wales Law Journal.

'Jake Goldenfein's brilliant and theoretically sophisticated reconstruction of legal identity in the era of automated profiling serves notice to our would-be digital overlords: the days when they could imagine that legal and policy frameworks were too hopelessly outdated to keep up are over. Monitoring Laws is a crucial contribution to contemporary discussions of privacy and profiling that provides the conceptual and historical resources for developing a regulatory regime that protects personal identity and legal rights in an era of ubiquitous monitoring.' Mark Andrejevic, Monash University

• 1. Monitoring laws; 2. The image and institutional identity; 3. Images and biometrics: privacy and stigmatization; 4. Dossiers, behavioural data, and secret speculation; 5. Data subject rights and the importance of access; 6. Automation, actuarial identity, and law enforcement informatics; 7. Algorithmic accountability and the statistical legal subject; 8. From image to computer vision: identity in the world state; 9. Person, place, and contest in the world state; 10. Law and legal automation in the world state; Index.

Jake Goldenfein is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell University, New York, and a lecturer at Swinburne Law School. A law and technology scholar exploring governance in computational society, Goldenfein has published across disciplines, with work appearing in Law and Critique, the Columbia Journal of Law and Arts, the Internet Policy Review, and the University of New South Wales Law Journal.

'Jake Goldenfein's brilliant and theoretically sophisticated reconstruction of legal identity in the era of automated profiling serves notice to our would-be digital overlords: the days when they could imagine that legal and policy frameworks were too hopelessly outdated to keep up are over. Monitoring Laws is a crucial contribution to contemporary discussions of privacy and profiling that provides the conceptual and historical resources for developing a regulatory regime that protects personal identity and legal rights in an era of ubiquitous monitoring.' Mark Andrejevic, Monash University

• 1. Monitoring laws; 2. The image and institutional identity; 3. Images and biometrics: privacy and stigmatization; 4. Dossiers, behavioural data, and secret speculation; 5. Data subject rights and the importance of access; 6. Automation, actuarial identity, and law enforcement informatics; 7. Algorithmic accountability and the statistical legal subject; 8. From image to computer vision: identity in the world state; 9. Person, place, and contest in the world state; 10. Law and legal automation in the world state; Index.

Jake Goldenfein is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell University, New York, and a lecturer at Swinburne Law School. A law and technology scholar exploring governance in computational society, Goldenfein has published across disciplines, with work appearing in Law and Critique, the Columbia Journal of Law and Arts, the Internet Policy Review, and the University of New South Wales Law Journal.

'Jake Goldenfein's brilliant and theoretically sophisticated reconstruction of legal identity in the era of automated profiling serves notice to our would-be digital overlords: the days when they could imagine that legal and policy frameworks were too hopelessly outdated to keep up are over. Monitoring Laws is a crucial contribution to contemporary discussions of privacy and profiling that provides the conceptual and historical resources for developing a regulatory regime that protects personal identity and legal rights in an era of ubiquitous monitoring.' Mark Andrejevic, Monash University

• 1. Monitoring laws; 2. The image and institutional identity; 3. Images and biometrics: privacy and stigmatization; 4. Dossiers, behavioural data, and secret speculation; 5. Data subject rights and the importance of access; 6. Automation, actuarial identity, and law enforcement informatics; 7. Algorithmic accountability and the statistical legal subject; 8. From image to computer vision: identity in the world state; 9. Person, place, and contest in the world state; 10. Law and legal automation in the world state; Index.