Monday, February 11, 2008

CCTV Identity Management and implications for Criminal Justice: some considerations
Surveillance and Society, Volume 5, Number 1, Pages 33-50
PDF - http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/articles5(1)/identity.pdf
Moira Carroll-Mayer et al
"The UK Presidency of the European Union called for an expansive, mandatory policy of surveillance technologies aimed at the reduction of crime and the protection of citizens. Research indicates that the efficacy for this task of the technology, epitomised by CCTV, cannot be taken for granted. This paper asks whether the effects of the technological surveillance environment may be more problematic than currently posited in the literature to the extent that they render more vulnerable and undermine the identities of those they are pledged to safeguard..."