"Video surveillance systems, often referred to as closed-circuit television (CCTV), have become a defining feature of modern life. Their widespread use by many different agencies for a range of purposes is no longer surprising, and is generally accepted in most European countries. Although broad academic interest accompanied the proliferation of CCTV in the mid to late 1990s, issues of governance and public policy are rarely explicitly a ..."
Surveillance and Space(1st Edition) (Society and Space) by FranciscoRetoKlauser Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2017 by Sage Publications Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-4739-0777-5, ISBN: 1-4739-0777-2
"The digital age is also a surveillance age. Today, computerized systems protect and manage our everyday life; the increasing number of surveillance cameras in public places, the computerized loyalty systems of the retail sector, geo-localized smart-phone applications, or smart traffic and navigation systems. Surveillance is nothing fundamentally new, and yet more and more questions are being asked: Who monitors whom, and how and wh ..."
Surveillance and Space(1st Edition) (Society and Space) by FranciscoRetoKlauser Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2016 by Sage Publications Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-4739-0776-8, ISBN: 1-4739-0776-4
"The digital age is also a surveillance age. Today, computerized systems protect and manage our everyday life; the increasing number of surveillance cameras in public places, the computerized loyalty systems of the retail sector, geo-localized smart-phone applications, or smart traffic and navigation systems. Surveillance is nothing fundamentally new, and yet more and more questions are being asked: Who monitors whom, and how and wh ..."
"Considering the possibility of a "political geography of surveillance", this book provides readers with a critical exploration of the interplay between surveillance and space."
"Anfang 2003 forderte die damalige FDP-Präsidentin Christiane Langenberger
anlässlich der Präsentation eines Massnahmenpaketes zur Erhöhung der
Bürgersicherheit beispielsweise, ganz allgemein Bereiche wie Bahnhöfe,
Unterführungen, Drogenszenen oder Verkehrsmittel mit Kameras zu überwachen
(Stauffer 11.2.2003: 6). Auch berichtete im Oktober 2002 das »Grenchner
Tagblatt« von der Diskussion in Moosseedorf (Kanton BE, 3551 Einwohner im ..."