ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews how post-9/11 ‘security’ issues intersect with existing and emerging technologies, particularly those relating to identity, location, home, and work that will form the backbone of the European Information Society. It explores the complexities generated by the way that these technologies work, sites of nationalist resistance, and formal bureaucratic roles. The chapter focuses on research funded by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. It examines the longer term impact of the post-September 11 changes in the security and privacy discourse. The chapter shows the actual and likely impacts of the changes in crime and security. It also explores the various crime and security issues relating to identity-related technologies and also mobile and location based technology; ‘ambient intelligence’ technologies in the home or work-place. The chapter discusses some lessons from the existing European experience of using private-public partnerships in the ‘policing’ of crime through bureaucratic-technical solutions.
