Does the development of new technology cause an increase the level of surveillance used by central government? Is the growth in surveillance merely a reaction to terrorism or a solution to crime control? Are there more structural roots for the increase in surveillance? This book attempts to find some answers to these questions by examining how governments have increased their use of surveillance technology.

Does the development of new technology cause an increase in the level of surveillance used by central government? Is the growth in surveillance merely a reaction to terrorism, or a solution to crime control? Are there more structural roots for the increase in surveillance?

This book attempts to find some answers to these questions by examining how governments have increased their use of surveillance technology. Focusing on a range of countries in Europe and beyond, this book demonstrates how government penetration into private citizens' lives was developing years before the...

Big data, surveillance, crisis management. Three largely different and richly researched fields, however, the interplay amongst these three domains is rarely addressed.

In this enlightening title, the link between these three fields is very much explored in a consequential order through a variety of contributions and series of unique and international case studies. Indeed, whilst considering crisis management as an -umbrella term- that covers a number of crises and ways of managing them, the reader will also explore the collection of -big data- by governmental crisis organisations....