Who's Watching You?

A Public Meeting on the increased permeation of security into society and the privatisation of security .

7pm, Thursday 11th October, 2007
WEA, 59 Gloucester St, Christchurch

Featuring:
Keith Locke - Green Party MP - spokesperson on Human Rights and Security and Intelligence; 'unofficial civil liberties watchdog'

Selwyn Manning -Co-editor of Scoop: reported on Ahmed Zaoui case and APEC 2007.

Paul Buchanan - Security and intelligence academic

David Small - senior lecturer in Education, successfully took case against Police in relation to SIS's 1996 break-in to Aziz Choudry's house.

Each speaker will present for 20 minutes on their view of the current situation, followed by questions from the floor.  One member of the Who's Watching You? team will also briefly present on important points raised in responses to our survey on these issues: see www.whoswatchingyou.org/survey.php

If you seek further information, please contact us on whoswatchingyou.org@gmail.com or phone Hayley on 0274517716.

Kind regards

Frances Mountier, Maddie Walker,Kieran Gallagher-Power & Hayley McLay
Who's Watching You?
www.whoswatchingyou.org

Who's Watching You? has been formed by students in the Development Studies paper at the University of Canterbury.  We aim to stimulate discussion and critique of the contemporary intersection of public/state and private security.

The increased permeation of security
We are interested in the changing security sphere internationally, nationally and at a personal level, since the beginning of the War on Terror. For example, we are interested in the changing legislative context around security, increased funding for state security entities, the increased use of surveillance technologies at airports and on the streets (for example CCTV), the increased use of identity systems for electronic financial transactions, the sharing of databases between different state agencies, and the use of private investigation firms by companies.

The privatisation of security
Some of these examples are the result of state initiatives, while others result from private demands for security. We define state security broadly as that which is funded and directly descended from the state. Private security is, broadly, that which is funded by corporations and individuals.

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