Toward an Imperial System of Surveillance Ethics

Avoiding the Bad Doesn't Mean Doing Good In writing about the ethics of surveillance in undercover police investigations and later other forms (Marx forthcoming), I suggested a series of questions that tended to involve avoiding harm in data collection and application. The Specificity of Surveillance Occasions and Strips Kevin sets up his paper as being philosophical rather than empirical, but I am not convinced. [...]he implicitly calls for empirical considerations in determining whether the consequences of an act are discriminating or whether the latter has a good likelihood of success.