Eyes Everywhere: The Global Growth of Camera Surveillance

In many countries camera surveillance has become commonplace and ordinary citizens and consumers are increasingly aware that they are under surveillance in everyday life. Yet what the presence of surveillance cameras actually achieves is still very much in question.Eyes Everywhere provides an accessible and international perspective on the development of camera surveillance.It scrutinizes the quiet but massive expansion of camera surveillance around the world in recent years, paying special attention to developments in Canada, the UK and the USA. Containing both broad overviews and several illuminating case-studies ' on matters such as cameras in taxi cabs or at mega-events such as the Olympics ' the book offers a valuable overview 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.