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Surveillance: A Special Report
News Surveillance is a huge topic so there's a lot to read. See: Government plans e-surveillance Today ZDNet UK News launches "Surveillance", a News Special that examines the reasoning behind government plans to snoop on our electronic communications.
[September 30, 1999, 16:49]
Surveillance: Net Surfing Could Get You Sacked
News We are not opposed to surveillance if there is a genuine need but we feel that any policy on use of the Internet should be drawn up with consultation so it is not management-imposed," a spokeswoman said.
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
Surveillance 2: Is Nothing Sacred?
News Think you're safe from surveillance when you get off the road and hole up in your home or office? If you're in a public place, then it's almost certain you'll be under surveillance most of the time. Take me to the Surveillance 2 ZDNet News special.
[February 25, 2000, 7:35]
Surveillance: How Your Boss Is Watching You
News Another UK computer surveillance company, Content Technologies, provides two such tools: Websweeper and Mailsweeper, which allow even the most amateur or part-time network administrator to follow people's Web browsing and email communications with...
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
UK, US, Russia, China - Surveillance Blackspots
Blog A report by Privacy International has again found the UK to be up there with such enlightened regimes as Russia, China, and the US in terms of how intrusive surveillance is in our society. Having no written constitution is going to give the UK a...
[January 2, 2008, 17:32]
Surveillance 2: Knowing Me, Knowing You
News Virtually every American city uses some form of video surveillance, and New York, predictably, is at the top of the list. Take me to the Surveillance 2 ZDNet News special. It's not your imagination: you are being watched.
[February 24, 2000, 14:32]
Surveillance 2: Say Cheese
News In the past, law enforcement officials have doubted the usefulness of video surveillance, but improvements in technology have changed that opinion dramatically. Take me to the Surveillance 2 ZDNet News special.
[February 25, 2000, 7:03]
Surveillance: Is E-privacy A Human Right?
News Accepting that government surveillance does interfere with privacy, she adds: "How can intrusive activity respect privacy? Take me to Surveillance. Plans to intercept email and Internet calls contravene the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR...
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
Surveillance: Privacy Versus Policework - The Debate
News Demon Internet reckons it will have to spend £1m a year to meet the government's requirements on surveillance. There are no statistics on the number of criminals caught using surveillance, but Home Secretary Jack Straw claims that one in every two...
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
Surveillance And Control: Privatizing And Nationalizing Corporate Monitoring After Sarbanes-Oxley
White Papers This paper explores consequences flowing from the imposition of increasingly significant governmentally directed and enforced surveillance obligations on private actors within the economic sphere. The emerging public-private regime, exemplified by...
[March 31, 2005, 3:00]
Surveillance: The Digital Revolution
White Papers Today, video surveillance has become commonplace. Digital surveillance offers more efficient storage and retrieval methods, as well as advanced capabilities like motion and abandoned object detection.
[August 3, 2007, 10:51]
IBM Surveillance Could Monitor Borders
News A new surveillance system that analyses video for intruders, or even a specific number-plate, is now ready for the mainstream market, IBM announced on Tuesday. The Smart Surveillance System (S3), available in conjunction with IBM's digital video...
[November 7, 2006, 9:26]
Intelligent Video Surveillance In Crowds
White Papers A new technology called Intelligent Video Surveillance employs state of the art computer vision technology to automate the process of watching CCTV video signals - making video a proactive defense sensor.
[July 27, 2007, 2:42]
Smart Surveillance Network Software For Phones
Blog Software that can turn camera phones into a rough and ready surveillance network has been developed by Swiss scientists, reports the New Scientist. Yes, the country that brought us the cuckoo clock and a handy place to store any gold teeth or...
[November 2, 2007, 15:52]
From White Elephant To Watch Dog: Making Surveillance Systems More Effective Through Integration With Information Infrastructure
White Papers This white paper explores the forces driving the surging demand for sophisticated surveillance capabilities and the reasons current surveillance systems fall short of these requirements. The paper discusses why security is greatly enhanced when...
[December 9, 2004, 2:00]
A Year Ago: Government Backtracks On Internet Surveillance
News The government tabled amendments to a controversial cyber-surveillance bill Monday that would weaken its snooping powers but may prevent more serious changes from being made. Read about how and why in Surveillance, a ZDNet News Special.
[June 27, 2001, 6:06]
Surveillance: US Web Users Fear For Online Privacy
News Take me to Surveillance. Over half of the most experienced Web users in the US have worries about online privacy, according to a Forrester study of 10,000 households. The number of years that consumers had been using the Internet had little effect...
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
VigilNet: An Integrated Sensor Network System For Energy-Efficient Surveillance
White Papers This paper describes one of the major efforts in the sensor network community to build an integrated sensor network system for surveillance missions. Hence, the ability to deploy unmanned surveillance missions, by using wireless sensor networks, is...
[August 25, 2007, 1:00]
Surveillance 2: Eye For An Eye
News Take me to the Surveillance 2 ZDNet News special. A personal fact here and another one there can add up to big business. A handful of aggressive marketing companies have turned these raw facts and figures into solid gold.
[February 25, 2000, 5:51]
Network Surveillance Control Center
White Papers In support of its nationwide SS7 network, VeriSign's Network Surveillance Control Center (NSCC) helps provide maximum performance, efficiency, and reliability for their customers' signaling traffic. A team of highly trained surveillance technicians...
[April 28, 2004, 22:57]
