The great surveillance boom After law enforcement used closed-circuit television cameras to help identify last week's Boston bombing suspects, lawmakers and surveillance advocates renewed calls for increased numbers of cameras nationwide. The best way to limit events like last week's bombings, the argument goes, is to accept 24-hour surveillance in public spaces. U.S. investment has helped fuel the growth of a global video surveillance industry. Ca Publications, a market research firm, the video surveillance market was slated to grow from $11.5 billion in 2008 to $37.5 billion in 2015. In London - the Xanadu of winking, digital eyes - surveillance cameras total an estimated half-million. A range of surveillance methods were used: public and private CCTV cameras, cell phone cameras, eyewitnesses. According to critics of surveillance, cameras aid investigation and apprehension in the aftermath, not the prevention, of acts of terrorism. Advocates o...
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