ABSTRACT
Today there are eyes everywhere, and it took just one generation. In thirty years camera surveillance grew from an unknown, non-issue to a frequently taken-forgranted ‘necessity’ on the street, in shopping malls, office buildings and factories, in transit stations and airports. Indeed, as Stephen Graham once suggested, public open-street video cameras may be considered as akin to a ‘fifth utility’ (Graham 1999). And while such public cameras receive much of the attention, privately owned and operated cameras are even more ubiquitous. Just how densely those cameras are distributed is a matter of some debate, of course.
