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Surveillance technology

Also known as: Surveillance tech, Monitoring technology

Technologies that collect, analyse, and track data about individuals' behaviours, locations, bodies, or communications. In disability contexts, surveillance technology raises justice concerns because assistive tools (computer vision for blind users, behaviour monitoring for autistic children) often rely on the same sensing and classification infrastructure as policing and social control systems, blurring the line between assistance and surveillance and potentially expanding institutional oversight of disabled people's lives.

Category: ethics · privacy · technology

Related: Assistive use exception · Re-identification risk · Differential privacy · Camera-based assistive technology

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