TY  - JOUR
A1  - Möllers, Norma Tamaria
A1  - Hälterlein, Jens
T1  - Privacy issues in public discourse  the case of "smart" CCTV in Germany
JF  - Innovation : the European journal of social sciences
N2  - In dealing with surveillance, scholars have widely agreed to refute privacy as an analytical concept and defining theme. Nonetheless, in public debates, surveillance technologies are still confronted with issues of privacy, and privacy therefore endures as an empirical subject of research on surveillance. Drawing from our analysis of public discourse of so-called smart closed-circuit television (CCTV) in Germany, we propose to use a sociology of knowledge perspective to analyze privacy in order to understand how it is socially constructed and negotiated. Our data comprise 117 documents, covering all publicly available documents between 2006 and 2010 that we were able to obtain. We found privacy to be the only form of critique in the struggle for the legitimate definition of smart CCTV. In this paper, we discuss the implications our preliminary findings have for the relationship between privacy issues and surveillance technology and conclude with suggestions of how this relationship might be further investigated as paradoxical, yet constitutive.
KW  - smart CCTV
KW  - video surveillance
KW  - privacy
KW  - data protection
KW  - sociology of knowledge
KW  - discourse analysis
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/13511610.2013.723396
SN  - 1351-1610
VL  - 26
IS  - 1-2
SP  - 57
EP  - 70
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  -