Increased demand in security & surveillance
Breadcrumbs: The Future of Ubiquitous computing in 2025 --> Political: Increased demand in security & sureillance
Description
Security's principal purpose is to create an environment for quality of life or business.
The fundamental categories, or functions, of security are:
Authentication, which involves identifying or describing people or systems, authorization which is about setting limits, boundaries, and expectations of behaviour. Administration which is the processes of managing (adding, removing, modifying) identities or privileges of a secure system or group of people is also included and audit which is about evaluating the effectiveness of existing authentication, authorization or administration processes.
Surveillance is the monitoring of behavior. Systems surveillance is the process of monitoring the behavior of people, objects or processes within systems for conformity to expected or desired norms in trusted systems for security or social control.
The need for increased security and surveillance has increased in a high percentage after the terrorists attacks of 2001. New security and identification methods are implemented every year and state governments are investing more and more in their security systems.
Enablers
- Continuing terrorist threats
- Internet penetration
- Identification
- Lack of regulation
- Booming of Internet industry
- Computer surveillance
- Electronic tagging
Inhibitors
- US/EU Agreement on Data Privacy and Safe Harbor
- The need for secure communication and information
- Personal privacy issues
Paradigm
With increased threats to society, governments are forced to look into ways of ensuring adequate level of security for their citizens through means of pervasive surveillance, even to the extent of limiting individual rights. The desire to balance security with privacy will continue to be discussed in many countries. As a result of the rapid rate of the technological developments in security, the debate will trail these developments. Potentially resulting in privacy boundaries being exceeded, with all the resulting consequences.
Experts
- David H. Holtzman
- Richard A. Clarke
- David Elliott Bell
Web Resources
http://www.publicsurveillance.com/surveillance-and-security.html