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 SURVEILLANCE STUDIES NETWORK - 6th Biannual Surveillance & Society Conference
SURVEILLANCE: AMBIGUITIES AND ASSIMETRIES
UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA, Thursday 24th – Friday 25th April 2014

Acceptable surveillance-oriented security technologies: insights from the SurPRISE Project

Sara Degli Esposti* and Elvira Santiago**

* The Open University Business School, sara.degliesposti@open.ac.uk

** Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), elvira.santiago@cchs.csic.es

Pre-emptive security emphasizes the necessity of envisioning and designing technologies

enabling the anticipation and management of emergent risks threatening human and public
security. Surveillance functionalities are embedded in the design of these technologies to allow
constant monitoring, preparedness and prevention. Yet surveillance-oriented security
technologies, such as smart CCTVs or Deep Packet Inspection, bring along with their
implementation other risks, such as risks of privacy infringement, discrimination, misuse,
abuse, or errors, which have often triggered public outrage and resistance. The same measures
meant to foster human security, can potentially make people feel insecure, vulnerable, and
exposed. This outcome is the result of a narrow approach toward problem solving that does
not take into account those same people the technology is supposed to protect. Drawing from
both the socio-cultural and psychometric approaches to risk analysis and from the literature on
public engagement in science and technology, this article presents a new methodological tool,
which combines traditional citizen summit method with an innovative mixed-method research
design. The objective of this new form of participatory exercise is to engage the public and
gather socially robust and in context knowledge about the public acceptability of these
technologies. The method has been developed as part of the SurPRISE project, funded by the
European Commission under the Seventh Framework Program. The article presents the
theoretical framework and preliminary results of citizen summits organized across Europe.

Key words: surveillance technology, security, privacy, citizen summit, public participation,
FP7 Project
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