Equality

Pap, András László and Balogh, Lídia (2018) Equality. In: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Surveillance, Security, and Privacy. SAGE Publications, Thousand Oaks (CA), pp. 360-361. ISBN 9781483359922

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Abstract

In discussions concerning the relationship between surveillance and equality, the latter is understood as the lack of discrimination among individuals or social groups. In the context of surveillance, social groups are mainly conceptualized though categorization, based on socially constructed categories and situation-dependent criteria. Some surveillance practices that are relevant from the point of equality are explicitly aimed at surveilling individuals, in other cases surveillance is an unintended consequence. In terms of its effect, surveillance can either be reinforcing or reducing social equality. The relationship between social equality and surveillance most often comes up in the context of law enforcement practices and social policies, and often relates to the phenomenon of intersectionality, that is people, whose social position is determined by the interplay of multiple social disadvantages.

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