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Literature Review on Privacy and Surveillance

In August 2003, the Information and Privacy Commissioner commissioned a literature review on the affects of privacy and surveillance on social behaviour.

The most common form of surveillance affecting social behavior is the use of cameras or closed-circuit television (CCTV) in public spaces such as car parks, public transit, housing projects, malls, streets, and city or town centres. Nowhere is the use of CCTV more prevalent than in the United Kingdom. Closed-circuit television has also begun to emerge in Australia and South Africa as a means of crime prevention. It is also used in Canada and the United States, but not to the same extent as in the U.K. and Australia.

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