We See It All: Liberty and Justice in an Age of Perpetual Surveillance

This investigation into the authorized, political, and ethical points surrounding how the police and justice system use surveillance know-how asks the query: what are residents of a free nation keen to tolerate within the identify of public security?

As we rethink the scope of police energy, Jon Fasman’s chilling examination of how the police and the justice system use the unparalleled energy of surveillance know-how—the way it impacts privateness, liberty, and civil rights—turns into extra pressing by the day. Embedding himself inside police departments on each coasts, Fasman explores the ethical, authorized, and political questions posed by these methods and instruments.

By zeroing in on how facial recognition, automated license-plate readers, drones, predictive algorithms, and encryption have an effect on us personally, Fasman vividly illustrates what’s at stake and explains the best way to suppose by way of problems with privateness rights, civil liberties, and public security. How do these applied sciences impression how police function in our society? How ought to archaic privateness legal guidelines written for an out of date period—that of the landline and postbox—be up to date?

Fasman appears intently at what can occur when surveillance applied sciences are mixed and put within the palms of governments with scant regard for residents’ civil liberties, pushing us to ask: Is our democratic tradition robust sufficient to cease us from turning into China, with its structure of management?