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| Question | Answer |
| Surveillance | Electronic footprint ATM Loyalty Card Credit Card Mobile Phone How its stored? Who has access? |
| Increasing amounts of information generated about us daily | Maketing strategies developed with help of widely available personal data |
| Clearly part of a long social process | Common mistake to think that surveillance is all about technology |
| Drift towards surveillance society | Most intensified applied at borders and boundaries |
| Dangers of sleepwalking into a surveillance society | Can prevent crime but also target and stigmatize certain members of community |
| It is a product of a production process where something is conceived, funded, resourced and based on a need or demand | Common mistake to think surveillance is all about technology |
| Risk of exclusion and/or being treated with suspicion | Some might feel privacy being invaded |
| Can be used to identify & exclude those seen as being undesireable | Can be targetted about how you might or might not look |
| Those who do the watching and those who are being watched | Tensions - being watched out for and being protected AND in being watched over, so that others can be protected |
| Some people might feel safer eg older people in shopping centre | Some people are desentized to it |
| People are affected differently depending on how they are or percieve surveillance | Some feel invasion of privacy |
| Formal/Informal arrangements -looking our for each other | Easy to forget cameras are there |
| To catch perpetrators of crime, prevent crime, look after vulnerable, transform public services, ostensibly for the good | Equally argue can start interfere honest law abiding lives |
| Need to strike a balance | State has not yet misused info massively against people |
| Highlights tensions between security and fairness to all | Easy to forget cameras are there |
| Surveillance is not all about technology | Complex system of support and protection from harm and abuse |
| Both a protection and a threat | Has both unintended and inteded consequences |
| Entanglements between welfare, crime and society - tensions and overlaps | Both a protection and a threat |
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