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Results of SURVEILLE project made public
SURVEILLE, an EU-funded FP7 Project led by Prof Tom Sorell and the Interdisciplinary Ethics Research Group (IERG) which systematically reviews the impacts of different surveillance systems and also helps manufacturers and end-users better to develop and deploy these systems, recently published some of its findings on Just Security in a 14 October article entitled 'Electronic Mass Surveillance Fails – Drastically'.
Below is an excerpt from the piece:
Our research found that electronic mass surveillance performed poorly in terms of practical usability, ethical grounds, and the protection of privacy rights, whereas traditional (non-technological) surveillance or strictly targeted electronic surveillance might have a chance to strike a “balance.” The novelty in our work is demonstrating this through semi-quantification and numerical scores.