understanding surveillance technologies spy devices their origins and applications

[...]... Commercial, Agricultural, and Government Applications There are thousands of commercial applications for surveillance technologies that are unrelated to corporate spying, and thousands of devices specifically designed for corporate spying Public safety in subway systems and protection of public artifacts and artworks in museums can be aided by surveillance devices Seemingly innocuous technologies sometimes... goods, and military activities 3.e Personal Applications Since the mid-1990s, surveillance technologies, particularly motion detectors, video cameras, and computer-related devices, have become consumer items Thus, there is a need to educate the public in terms of the forms and functions of the various devices and ways in which they could and should be used and the implications for personal freedoms and. .. from increasing levels of surveillance There are also a few books on spy technologies as they relate to espionage and military use However, until now, no book has adequately covered surveillance devices in a broader context so that readers can understand the origins and current practices of the technologies as they are used in a wide range of fields A page dotted with Base Censor and U.S Censor Office... [NASA/JSC and NASA/JPL news photos, released.] 3.d Nonprofit and Public Welfare Applications Surveillance technologies are used by public-concern watchdog agencies to monitor government and corporate activities, pollution, resources, and price policies In turn, governments have used surveillance technologies to monitor radical militant groups and others suspected of terrorist intentions Nonprofit applications. .. order related to their physical properties One possible scheme that could be used to organize the most common TECHINT-related surveillance technologies is shown in the chart on the preceding page Emphasis The most widely used surveillance technologies are chemical, acoustic (particularly audio, radio, and sonar) and visual Aerial surveillance consists mainly of visual and radio technologies and is covered... forms of extraliminal surveillance, but since the surveillees are intellectually capable of understanding the concepts, given more information, surveillance of low-technology cultures are actually forms of covert or clandestine surveillance rather than extraliminal surveillance 2.d Categories of Surveillance Devices Due to the limitations of space, this text can’t describe every surveillance technology... important field, but it is not as prevalent as the other technologies and is given a correspondingly smaller amount of space in this text It should be noted that it is a growing area of surveillance and dogs and dolphins are used in many types of land and marine surveillance activities 5 Miscellaneous Surveillance - Magnetic, Cryptologic, Computer Magnetic surveillance is included in the miscellaneous section.. .Surveillance Technologies 1 Introduction & Overview 1 Introduction 1.a Scope and Focus This book fills a significant gap in the literature related to surveillance There are currently thousands of books about spies and international espionage, dozens of catalogs that list price information about spy devices (though without any real explanation of their uses), and many recent books... covered in the previous sections 6 Examples of technologies used in practical applications and some commercial sources of some example devices 7 Some of the problems and limitations inherent in a particular class of technologies 8 Some of the legislative restrictions, trends, and concerns related to the use of the technologies Keep in mind that use of surveillance technologies for some purposes is highly... five general categories of surveillance activities: implied surveillance Surveillance that is mimicked or faked with a variety of devices, including nonfunctioning cameras or empty camera housings and/ or stickers claiming that the area is monitored, when in fact it isn’t Implied surveillance is generally used as a low-cost deterrent to theft and vandalism overt surveillance Surveillance in which the . Data Peterson, Julie K. Understanding surveillance technologies : spy devices, their origins & applications / Julie K. Peterson. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8493-2298-7.