Panoptic dreams
Subtitle: streetscape video surveillance in Canada
By: Sean P. Hier
Publisher: UBC Press; Univ of British Columbia Pr
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Vancouver
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780774818711
Subjects: Surveillance électronique; Vidéosurveillance; Video surveillance; Electronic surveillance; Droit à la vie privée; Aspect social; Right of Privacy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Streetscape monitoring programs in Canada. Introduction ; Establishing streetscape monitoring programs; title: The rise of streetscape monitoring programs. Monitoring programs in French Canada ; Sudbury's Lion's Eye in the Sky ; Kelowna and the constitutional debate about public-area video surveillance ; London's downtown camera project; title: The spread of streetscape monitoring programs. The expansion of streetscape monitoring programs ; Thwarted efforts to establish streetscape monitoring programs ; Thunder Bay's Eye on the Street ; Panoptic dreams : arguments, implications, and recommendations.