Cutting edge developments in nano- and bio-tech have created new opportunities for surveillance operations. Technology converge is the key evolution of future surveillance. The ability to detect covertly not only individuals but also their “intentions” is a dramatic breakthrough that has the potential to overturn any standard approach to crime and terrorism prevention. Yet its potentiality for misuse is huge. This poses a basic ethical and political question about the legitimacy to develop such a technology: “Measures against terrorism should not and need not reduce standards of protection of fundamental rights which characterise democratic societies. A key element of the fight against terrorism involves ensuring that we preserve the fundamental values which are the basis of our emocratic societies and the very values that those advocating the use of violence seek to destroy”.
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