By Frank Webster, Kirstie Ball
Our private and non-private lives are lower than surveillance as by no means earlier than. no matter if we're purchasing with a bank card, strolling down the road or emailing a colleague at paintings, our actions are monitored. Surveillance has develop into extra regimen, extra built-in and extra intrusive. it's important to invite how and why this could be so, and investigate what the results are. for the reason that September eleventh 2001 surveillance has intensified additional. but even though participants, teams, governments and states are extra heavily monitored, our defense isn't really guaranteed. The members to this quantity discover the monstrous variety of concerns concerning elevated surveillance. what's going in a space clouded by way of secrecy from the country and complacent reassurances from agencies? How can we music suspects and wrestle crime with no additionally eroding our civil liberties and sacrificing our rights to privateness? Does digital tagging of prisoners paintings? What are shops as much as with 'lifestyle profiling'? targeting those and different concerns reminiscent of paedophilia, money-laundering, info conflict, cybercrime, and comparable laws, this ebook spotlights merits and prices of surveillance, and indicates the way it is probably going to strengthen sooner or later. specialists from Europe and the US provide a world viewpoint on what's now a global factor, making this publication of curiosity to a variety of humans together with felony practitioners, legislation enforcement corporations, policymakers and scholars around the social sciences.
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We can see IAG in terms of new governance relationships among many organizations that are manoeuvred towards convergence on the performances involved in the provision of services, assisted powerfully by the capacity of ICTs to promote the fulfilment of these objectives. A UK government White Paper of 1999 illustrated this; it envisaged linkages between the government’s own secure intranet facilities and public bodies outside of central government, as well as closer relations between central and local government and business organizations.
It drew attention to the need to establish the existence of legal powers to disclose information, and to the need to see that such disclosure is done on a proper basis with due regard to common and statute law, including the duty of confidence and the Data Protection Principles. It observed that, under the Data Protection Act, there are exemptions available for the non-disclosure rules where failure to disclose would be likely to prejudice crime-prevention or -detection objectives. But in the request for disclosure – for example, where a housing department wants information held by the police in order to bring a civil proceeding against a tenant – the agency needs to specify why the information is necessary to the success of the proceedings, and why the proceedings, if successful, would prevent crime.
The self-fulfilling prophesy takes shape and acquires material force through just this sort of iterative process. Of course, it is not only discrimination on the basis of race, gender or age that should concern us. Our concerns should be based more generally on what we understand to be the social consequences that flow from using a decision system that systematically bars members of groups or segments of the population from acquiring the informational resources that are 38 The Intensification of Surveillance essential to their individual development and their collective participation in the economy and in the public sphere.