Smart Surveillance
How to Interpret the Fourth Amendment in the Twenty-First Century
Published on 22. August 2019
Book
Hardback
270 pages
978-1-108-48360-5 (ISBN)
Description
Over the last decade, law enforcement agencies have engaged in increasingly intrusive surveillance methods, from location tracking on cell phones to reading metadata off of e-mails. As a result, many believe we are heading towards an omniscient surveillance state and irrevocable damage to our privacy rights. In Smart Surveillance, Ric Simmons challenges this conventional wisdom by taking a broader look at the effect of new technologies and privacy, arguing that advances in technology can enhance our privacy and our security at the same time. Rather than focusing exclusively on the rise of invasive surveillance technologies, Simmons proposes a fundamentally new method of evaluating government searches - based on quantification, transparency, and efficiency - resulting in a legal regime that can adapt as technology and society change.
Reviews / Votes
'... is an impressively presented work of meticulous scholarship and a critically important contribution to our on-going national discussion over the proper role of the government's use of technology within the constitutional context of citizen privacy and the necessities of national security ... it should be noted for the personal reading lists of students, academia, governmental security officials, political activists, and non-specialist general readers ...' Midwest Book ReviewMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises; 5 Tables, black and white; 8 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
552 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-48360-5 (9781108483605)
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Person
Ric Simmons is the Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer Professor for the Administration of Justice and Rule of Law at the Moritz College of Law at the Ohio State University. He is the co-author of four textbooks on evidence and criminal procedure, and he has published over two dozen scholarly articles in law journals. His scholarship focuses on the Fourth Amendment and how courts and legislatures should react to the impact of new technologies in regulating surveillance.
Content
Introduction: the myth of the surveillance panopticon; 1. The cost-benefit analysis theory; 2. Measuring the benefits of surveillance; 3. Quantifying criminal procedure; 4. Reactive surveillance; 5. Binary searches and the potential for 100% enforcement; 6. Public surveillance, big data, and mosaic searches; 7. The third party doctrine dilemma and the outsourcing of our Fourth Amendment rights; 8. Hyper-intrusive searches; Conclusion: implementing the change.