Privatized Counter-Terrorist Surveillance: Constitutionalism Undermined

de Londras, Fiona

Abstract

This chapter is concerned with the constitutionalist challenges posed by privatized counter-terrorist surveillance (PCTS). PCTS is defined here as surveillance done for the purposes or in the course of a broader counter-terrorist regime and in which private (by which is meant non-state) actors are involved. This chapter characterizes PCTS as one illustration of a broader trend of privatization in counter-terrorism and problematizes it as a phenomenon that severely undermines the core constitutionalist commitment to limited, transparent and accountable power.

Citation

de Londras, F. (2013). Privatized Counter-Terrorist Surveillance: Constitutionalism Undermined. In F. Davis, N. McGarrity, & G. Williams (Eds.), Surveillance, counter-terrorism and comparative constitutionalism (59-72). Routledge

• Publication Date: Dec 5, 2013
• Deposit Date: Apr 11, 2013
• Publicly Available Date: May 31, 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 59-72
• Series Title: Routledge research in terrorism and the law
• Book Title: Surveillance, counter-terrorism and comparative constitutionalism.
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1676785
• Publisher URL: http://www.routledge.com/9780415829106