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Surveillance and Social Control - 2

. 1) The collection of information (?dataveillance")2) The rise of CCTV (closed circuit television)The streets of ParisThe case of Las Vegas3) The politics of surveillance - Official story / unofficial stories. The Collection of Information. David LyonThe ?Surveillance Society"Visual surve

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Surveillance and Social Control - 2

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    1. Surveillance and Social Control - 2 How monitored are we? Is Britain a ‘Big Brother’ society?

    2. 1) The collection of information (“dataveillance”) 2) The rise of CCTV (closed circuit television) The streets of Paris The case of Las Vegas 3) The politics of surveillance - Official story / unofficial stories

    3. The Collection of Information David Lyon The “Surveillance Society” Visual surveillance Dataveillance Sophisticated electronic data collection systems 1) Specific individuals 2) Types of individuals / groups 3) Whole population

    4. Constant data collection More data collated every day Databases contain e.g. Financial situation Health situation Use of state benefits Consumer preferences Education record Criminal record

    5. The Collection of Information

    6. The paradoxes of “democracy” 1) Government knowledge of individual grows 2) After September 11th – more surveillance to protect “freedom”

    7. The Collection of Information Business corporations - Consumer preferences - Marketing: reducing uncertainty Selling your data - data as commodity

    8. Government data collection systems separate from Business data collection systems Now: Blurring of boundaries Government use of business data e.g. mobile phone records - Electronic trails

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    11. CCTV - historical background

    12. What CCTV can do

    13. Las Vegas casinos 1) Streets outside - CCTV 2) CCTV everywhere inside - Zoom mechanisms - Infra-red, heat-seeking motion mechanisms 3) Electronic communications surveillance

    14. The Politics of Surveillance Official story: - reduces crime - enhances public safety - discourages creation of new “criminals” - 75% of public in favour

    15. Unofficial story: Norris and Armstrong City of Hull, UK 1) 900 targeted surveillances - 12 arrests 2) Operators’ biases: youths, black people, drunks, beggars 3) Shifts crime to other areas

    16. Zygmunt Bauman ‘Consumers’ & ‘failed consumers’ Streets and & shopping malls kept ‘pure’ Public spaces controlled by private business interests c) Consumerism: stimulate aspirations of all d) Surveillance: control aspirations of poor

    17. “Gated communities” - Private communities for the rich - Fences and electronic surveillance systems USA, South Africa, Brazil - Great divides between rich and poor Rich frightened of theft and violence Social fabric torn apart / CCTV as “solution” Crime further concentrated in poor areas Coming to Britain soon …

    18. ISSUES TO CONSIDER 1) Surveillance necessary and socially beneficial? OR Surveillance intrusive and a violation of human rights? BALANCE? 2) How much privacy do you really have? Has the “Big Brother” society come to be a reality? 3) Are the poor more targeted than the rich? Is that a problem? Democracy?

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