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Panoptic Dreams
Streetscape Video Surveillance in Canada
The number of Canadian cities using video surveillance systems to monitor city streets is growing. In Panoptic Dreams, Sean Hier explores how and why Canadian cities introduced street surveillance programs between 1981 and 2005 and brings to light the governance structures and privacy protection policy frameworks that made these programs possible. This book uses empirical findings to reflect critically on video surveillance policy and design structures in Canada. The original analyses will assist academics, privacy advocates, and others with community-based interests to assess the strengths and weaknesses of establishing streetscape CCTV surveillance monitoring systems.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Streetscape Monitoring Programs in Canada
1 Introduction
2 Establishing Streetscape Monitoring Programs
Part 2: The Rise of Streetscape Monitoring Programs
3 Monitoring Programs in French Canada
4 Sudbury’s Lions Eye in the Sky
5 Kelowna and the Constitutional Debate about Public-Area Video Surveillance
6 London’s Downtown Camera Project
Part 3: The Spread of Streetscape Monitoring Programs
7 The Expansion of Streetscape Monitoring Programs
8 Thwarted Efforts to Establish Streetscape Monitoring Programs
9 Thunder Bay’s Eye on the Street
10 Panoptic Dreams: Arguments, Implications, and Recommendations
Appendices
Notes
References
Index