Expectations versus effects regarding police surveillance cameras in a municipal park

Ray Surette; Matthew Stephenson

doi:10.1057/s41300-018-0058-3

Veillance

Biometrics ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-0983-7.ch066 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 1575-1590

Author(s):

Steve Mann

Keyword(s):

Conflict Of Interest ◽

Wearable Computing ◽

Chilling Effect ◽

Surveillance Cameras ◽

Wearable Cameras ◽

Police Surveillance

This chapter builds upon the concept of Uberveillance introduced in the seminal research of M. G. Michael and Katina Michael in 2006. It begins with an overview of sousveillance (underwatching) technologies and examines the “We're watching you but you can't watch us” hypocrisy associated with the rise of surveillance (overwatching). Surveillance cameras are often installed in places that have “NO CAMERAS” and “NO CELLPHONES IN STORE, PLEASE!” signage. The author considers the chilling effect of this veillance hypocrisy on LifeGlogging, wearable computing, “Sixth Sense,” AR Glass, and the Digital Eye Glass vision aid. If surveillance gives rise to hypocrisy, then to what does its inverse, sousveillance (wearable cameras, AR Glass, etc.), give rise? The opposite (antonym) of hypocrisy is integrity. How might we resolve the conflict-of-interest that arises in situations where, for example, police surveillance cameras capture the only record of wrongdoing by the police? Is sousveillance the answer or will centralized dataveillance merely turn sousveillance into a corruptible uberveillance authority?

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Veillance

Uberveillance and the Social Implications of Microchip Implants - Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-4582-0.ch002 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 32-45

Author(s):

Steve Mann

Keyword(s):

Conflict Of Interest ◽

Wearable Computing ◽

Chilling Effect ◽

Surveillance Cameras ◽

Wearable Cameras ◽

Police Surveillance

This chapter builds upon the concept of Uberveillance introduced in the seminal research of M. G. Michael and Katina Michael in 2006. It begins with an overview of sousveillance (underwatching) technologies and examines the “We're watching you but you can't watch us” hypocrisy associated with the rise of surveillance (overwatching). Surveillance cameras are often installed in places that have “NO CAMERAS” and “NO CELLPHONES IN STORE, PLEASE!” signage. The author considers the chilling effect of this veillance hypocrisy on LifeGlogging, wearable computing, “Sixth Sense,” AR Glass, and the Digital Eye Glass vision aid. If surveillance gives rise to hypocrisy, then to what does its inverse, sousveillance (wearable cameras, AR Glass, etc.), give rise? The opposite (antonym) of hypocrisy is integrity. How might we resolve the conflict-of-interest that arises in situations where, for example, police surveillance cameras capture the only record of wrongdoing by the police? Is sousveillance the answer or will centralized dataveillance merely turn sousveillance into a corruptible uberveillance authority?

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California

Kalfou A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies ◽

10.15367/kf.v2i2.70 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Roberto Alvarez

Keyword(s):

The State ◽

Social Cartography ◽

Family Network ◽

The Family ◽

The Us ◽

Mexico Border ◽

Police Surveillance ◽

Us Mexico Border

I utilize my situated position as anthropologist, academician, and citizen to argue not only that we should “think” California, but also that we should “rethink” our state—both its condition and its social cartography. To be clear, I see all my research and endeavors—my research on the US/Mexico border; my time among the markets and entrepreneurs I have worked and lived with; my focus on those places in which I was raised: Lemon Grove, Logan Heights; the family network and my community ethnographic work—as personal. I am in this academic game and the telling of our story because it is personal. When Lemon Grove was segregated, it was about my family; when Logan Heights was split by the construction of Interstate 5 and threatened by police surveillance, it was about our community; when the border was sanctioned and militarized it again was about the communities of which I am a part. A rethinking California is rooted in the experience of living California, of knowing and feeling the condition and the struggles we are experiencing and the crises we have gone through. We need to rethink California, especially the current failure of the state. This too is ultimately personal, because it affects each and every one of us, especially those historically unrepresented folks who have endured over the decades.

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COVID-19 Sewage Testing as a Police Surveillance Infrastructure

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3742320 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Elizabeth E. Joh

Keyword(s):

Police Surveillance

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Video as Text/Archive

The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190695620.013.35 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 778-797

Author(s):

Bennett Capers

Keyword(s):

Supreme Court ◽

Court Case ◽

The Supreme Court ◽

Surveillance Cameras ◽

American Law ◽

Supreme Court Case ◽

History Of ◽

Constitutional Protections

This chapter focuses on a few issues related to video evidence and law, especially with respect to American law. The first issue is the history of the use of video evidence in court. The second issue involves constitutional protections regarding the state’s use of surveillance cameras. The chapter then turns to the Supreme Court case Scott v. Harris to raise concerns about the use of video evidence as not just proof but “truth.” These are of course just a sampling of the issues that the topic of video evidence could raise. The hope is that this chapter will spur further inquiry on the part of the reader.

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