Gathering Resources for Surveillance Camera Mapping

After attending my first meeting with the Surveillance and Security Group of the Vancouver Public Space Network, I decided to see what The New Transparency research group, centered at Queen's University, had amassed on CCTV cameras in urban spaces.

The Surveillance Camera Awareness Network (SCAN) is a multidisciplinary Canadian research initiative supported in part by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. To date, they have resources, including a bibliography of surveillance studies works. They have also published a report on surveillance camera use in Canada, and provided links to CCTV news stories.

I am going to look over these more closely in the next few weeks to see how these might be used in any anti-surveillance advocacy in Vancouver.