ABSTRACT

In many countries camera surveillance has become commonplace, and ordinary citizens and consumers are increasingly aware that they are under surveillance in everyday life. Camera surveillance is typically perceived as the archetype of contemporary surveillance technologies and processes.

While there is sometimes fierce debate about their introduction, many others take the cameras for granted or even applaud their deployment. Yet what the presence of surveillance cameras actually achieves is still very much in question. International evidence shows that they have very little effect in deterring crime and in 'making people feel safer’, but they do serve to place certain groups under greater official scrutiny and to extend the reach of today’s ‘surveillance society’.

Eyes Everywhere provides the first international perspective on the development of camera surveillance. It scrutinizes the quiet but massive expansion of camera surveillance around the world in recent years, focusing especially on Canada, the UK and the USA but also including less-debated but important contexts such as Brazil, China, Japan, Mexico, South Africa and Turkey. Containing both broad overviews and illuminating case-studies, including cameras in taxi-cabs and at mega-events such as the Olympics, the book offers a valuable oversight on the status of camera surveillance in the second decade of the twenty-first century.

The book will be fascinating reading for students and scholars of camera surveillance as well as policy makers and practitioners from the police, chambers of commerce, private security firms and privacy- and data-protection agencies.

chapter |19 pages

Introduction

part |60 pages

Situating camera surveillance growth

chapter |23 pages

There's No Success Like Failure and Failure's No Success at all

Some critical reflections on understanding the global growth of CCTV surveillance1

chapter |21 pages

What Goes up, Must Come Down

On the moribundity of camera networks in the UK

chapter |14 pages

Seeing Surveillantly

Surveillance as social practice

part |55 pages

International growth of camera surveillance

chapter |17 pages

Cameras in Context

A comparison of the place of video surveillance in Japan and Brazil*

part |98 pages

Evolving forms and uses of camera surveillance

chapter |17 pages

The Electronic Eye Of The Police

The provincial information and security system in Istanbul

chapter |18 pages

Policing In The Age Of Information

Automated number plate recognition

chapter |11 pages

Video Surveillance In Vancouver

Legacies of the Games

chapter |17 pages

Selling Surveillance

The introduction of cameras in Ottawa taxis

chapter |16 pages

Deploying Camera Surveillance Images

The case of Crime Stoppers

chapter |17 pages

Hidden Changes

From CCTV to ‘smart' video surveillance

part |57 pages

Public support, media visions and the politics of representation

chapter |12 pages

Anti-Surveillance Activists V. The Dancing Heads of Terrorism

Signal crimes, media frames and camera promotion

chapter |13 pages

Surveillance Cameras and Synopticism

A case study in Mexico City

chapter |18 pages

‘What Do You Think?'

International public opinion on camera surveillance

part |87 pages

Regulating camera surveillance

chapter |14 pages

Towards A Framework Of Contextual Integrity

Legality, trust and compliance of CCTV signage

chapter |24 pages

Mitigating Asymmetric Visibilities

Towards a signage code for surveillance camera networks

chapter |22 pages

Is it a ‘Search'?

The legal context of camera surveillance in Canada

chapter |15 pages

Privacy as security

Comparative developments in Canada, the UK and the USA

chapter |10 pages

Sometimes What's Public Is Private

Legal rights to privacy in public spaces