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:
Outside links
An Appraisal of the Technologies of Political Control (http://jya.com/stoa-atpc-so.htm), 1998