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Videosurveillance and privacy: covering the two sides of the mirror with DRM

Authors:

Juan R. Troncoso-Pastoriza,

Pedro Comesaña,

Luis Pérez-Freire,

Fernando Pérez-GonzálezAuthors Info & Claims

DRM '09: Proceedings of the nineth ACM workshop on Digital rights management

Pages 83 - 94

https://doi.org/10.1145/1655048.1655061

Published: 09 November 2009 Publication History

Abstract

Privacy and security have always been key concerns for individuals. They have also been closely related concepts: in order to increase their perception of security, people sacrifice a part of their privacy by accepting to be surveilled by others. The tradeoff between both is usually reasonable and commonly accepted; however, the case of videosurveillance systems has been particularly controversial since their inception, as their benefits are not perceived to compensate for the privacy loss in many cases. The situation has become even worse during the last years with the massive deployment of these systems, which often do not provide satisfactory guarantees for the citizens. This paper proposes a DRM-based framework for videosurveillance to achieve a better balance between both concepts: it protects privacy of the surveilled individuals, whilst giving support to efficient automated surveillance.

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Videosurveillance and privacy: covering the two sides of the mirror with DRM
1. Security and privacy
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Computing / technology policy
    1. Intellectual property
    2. Privacy policies

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DRM '09: Proceedings of the nineth ACM workshop on Digital rights management

November 2009

104 pages

ISBN:9781605587790

DOI:10.1145/1655048

General Chair:
Ehab Al-Shaer
University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA
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IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
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University of New Mexico, USA

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