Turning 'big brother' surveillance into a helping hand to the homeless
- Written by Andrew Clarke, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
Cairns has an extensive CCTV network, which as well as keeping homeless people under surveillance is sometimes used to help them.Andreina Schoeberlein/Flickr, CC BY-NC
Surveillance evokes fear of a “big brother” state watching our every move. The proliferation of closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras in our cities and the emergence...
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