Putting Surveillance on the Political Agenda – A Short Defence of Surveillance: Citizens and the State

Surveillance and Society, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 408-413, 2010

6 Pages Posted: 6 Apr 2010

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Charles D. Raab

University of Edinburgh

Benjamin J. Goold

University of British Columbia - Faculty of Law

Date Written: 2009

Abstract

In February 2009 the House of Lords Constitutional Committee in the United Kingdom published the report Surveillance: Citizens and the State. Some have hailed this as a landmark document. Volume 6(3) of Surveillance & Society published 4 invited responses to this report written by prominent scholars. In the attached paper the two Specialist Advisers to this Committee set the context for the report and provide a brief rejoinder to the four responses.

NOTE: The authors write in their academic and personal capacities, and not as representatives of the Committee.

Keywords: Surveillance, Society, Data collection

Suggested Citation

Raab, Charles D. and Goold, Benjamin J., Putting Surveillance on the Political Agenda – A Short Defence of Surveillance: Citizens and the State (2009). Surveillance and Society, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 408-413, 2010, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1583114

Charles D. Raab

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