Bodies do not lie: An ethical journey into surveillance technology

Through EU framework programs on research and development, the status and responsibility of the "human sciences" have evolved. The latter used to occupy an outside position as the expertise for evaluating RD policies or assessing the legal, social, economic or ethical impact of techniques. Nowadays, they are invited to participate in designing innovations, the social acceptability of technological choices being the grounds for this invitation. This review, in the form of a narration, examines the situated, pragmatic intervention by a team of social scientists in a European project for developing a smart multimodal surveillance system. [PUB ABSTRACT] Reproduced by permission of Bibliothèque de Sciences Po