The Other Side of "Big Brother": CCTV Surveillance and Intelligence Gathering by Private Police

What Hayes (2009, p. 5) highlights is the increasing use of information technology in support of surveillance and intelligence gathering in a range of policing methodologies that impact on the daily lives of an increasingly large part of the modern population. Most policing is intrusive and can infringe on individual rights and freedoms. The policing methodologies of surveillance and intelligence gathering are perhaps more intrusive than other models. Whether it be the right to privacy, freedom of speech or the right to come and go as the individual pleases, the actions of police have the potential to curtail these freedoms. One of the freedoms that is most often The Other Side of “Big Brother”: CCTv Surveillance and Intelligence Gathering by Private Police