Ethical and political dimensions of virtual fences
summary
A European FP7 effort builds a P5 smart perimeter from radars, thermal and acoustic sensors, lasers and cameras to detect objects > small animal at ~200 m, classify behavior and infer intent to cut false alarms; it adds TTP trust third party access controls as a privacy‑by‑design module. Fieldwork in Belgian prisons finds similar upkeep costs to staff, unexpected reuse for internal monitoring, weakened guard‑inmate social links and algorithms that normalize behavior via statistical thresholds, raising contestability and temporal‑prediction concerns.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 4:27Political dimension
- 16:59Response
- 23:11Presentation
- 28:33Perspective
- 30:50End user perspective
- 33:00Soft impacts
- 38:18Recap
- 39:46Zombie movie
- 42:55Announcement by BW
- 44:08What is better
- 45:00Political debate
- 48:03Data protection
- 48:46Politics
- 49:55Political impact assessment
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