Technologies of political control

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Technologies of political control are technologies that assist a political entity in enforcing plenary power. The technologies were summarized in a 1998 report to the European Parliament, but the term was first mentioned in an earlier book .

The technologies are said to include:

• Crowd control weapons
• Prison control systems
• Interrogation and torture techniques and technologies
• Surveillance technology including:
  • Closed circuit television systems
  • Algorithmic surveillance systems, which include:
    • Biometric surveillance systems
    • Vehicle recognition systems
    • Bugging and wiretap technologies
    • Communications interceptions networks, which include:
      • ECHELON
      • Carnivore

[edit] External links

• An Appraisal of the Technologies of Political Control, 1998