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Citation
Deirdre Mulligan, Stephen Wicker. "Can Selective Sensing Protect Democratic Principles and Enhance Policing?". Talk or presentation, 10, October, 2007.

Abstract
The evolution of sensor networks able to detect various physical phenomena presents an opportunity to reduce the dependence of law enforcement and intelligence agencies on visual surveillance as a means of policing and intelligence gathering. The use of specific sensing technologies has the capacity to produce more salient data to support specific policing activities. It has the added benefit of reducing the effect of surveillance on certain forms of privacy by limiting the collection of data that reveals or eases the revelation of identity, limiting the ease with which data can be repurposed, and limiting the misuse and abuse of systems to track and monitor subsets of the population based on animus, bias, or voyeurism. This paper examines the existing rules that govern police/citizen interactions and uses them to construct a mock sensor network that would collect more relevant data for policing while limiting the unintended negative effects on privacy.

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  href="http://www.truststc.org/pubs/289.html"
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  Principles and Enhance Policing?</i></a>, Talk
  or presentation,  10, October, 2007.

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  Deirdre Mulligan, Stephen Wicker. "Can Selective
  Sensing Protect Democratic Principles and Enhance
  Policing?". Talk or presentation,  10, October, 2007.

• BibTeX

  @presentation{MulliganWicker07_CanSelectiveSensingProtectDemocraticPrinciplesEnhance,
      author = {Deirdre Mulligan and Stephen Wicker},
      title = {Can Selective Sensing Protect Democratic
                Principles and Enhance Policing?},
      day = {10},
      month = {October},
      year = {2007},
      abstract = {The evolution of sensor networks able to detect
                various physical phenomena presents an opportunity
                to reduce the dependence of law enforcement and
                intelligence agencies on visual surveillance as a
                means of policing and intelligence gathering. The
                use of specific sensing technologies has the
                capacity to produce more salient data to support
                specific policing activities. It has the added
                benefit of reducing the effect of surveillance on
                certain forms of privacy by limiting the
                collection of data that reveals or eases the
                revelation of identity, limiting the ease with
                which data can be repurposed, and limiting the
                misuse and abuse of systems to track and monitor
                subsets of the population based on animus, bias,
                or voyeurism. This paper examines the existing
                rules that govern police/citizen interactions and
                uses them to construct a mock sensor network that
                would collect more relevant data for policing
                while limiting the unintended negative effects on
                privacy.},
      URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/289.html}
  }
  

Posted by Larry Rohrbough on 16 Oct 2007.
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