Smart Surveillance

How to Interpret the Fourth Amendment in the Twenty-First Century

Ric Simmons

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9781108580519
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Criminal Law
• Index: Law

Over the last decade, law enforcement agencies have engaged in increasingly intrusive surveillance methods, from location tracking on cell phones to reading metadata off of e-mails. As a result, many believe we are heading towards an omniscient surveillance state and irrevocable damage to our privacy rights. In Smart Surveillance, Ric Simmons challenges this conventional wisdom by taking a broader look at the effect of new technologies and privacy, arguing that advances in technology can enhance our privacy and our security at the same time. Rather than focusing exclusively on the rise of invasive surveillance technologies, Simmons proposes a fundamentally new method of evaluating government searches - based on quantification, transparency, and efficiency - resulting in a legal regime that can adapt as technology and society change.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: The Myth of the Surveillance Panopticon
• 1 The Cost-Benefit Analysis Theory
• 2 Measuring the Benefits of Surveillance
• 3 Quantifying Criminal Procedure
• 4 Reactive Surveillance
• 5 Binary Searches and the Potential for 100 Percent Enforcement
• 6 Public Surveillance, Big Data, and Mosaic Searches
• 7 The Third-Party Doctrine Dilemma and the Outsourcing of Our Fourth Amendment Rights
• 8 Hyper-Intrusive Searches
• Conclusion: Implementing the Change
• Notes
• Index