Abstract
While the continuing proliferation of CCTV surveillance is a cause for concern, its impact on privacy has in the past been mitigated by certain natural limitations on the way CCTV systems operate in practice. In particular, the increased quantity of surveillance data has not been matched by a similar increase in our ability to process and evaluate it. This paper compares different models of technology enabled analysis of CCTV footage, with a focus on the emerging trend of crowdsourced CCTV analysis: in the world of crowdsourced surveillance, “Big Brother is us”.
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Prof. Burkhard Schafer Professor for Computional Legal Theory, School of Law, Edinburgh University
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Schafer, B. Crowdsourcing and cloudsourcing CCTV surveillance. Datenschutz Datensich 37, 434–439 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11623-013-0173-3
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