Article Title

Preventing A Modern Panopticon: Law Enforcement Acquisition Of Real-Time Cellular Tracking Data

Authors

Steven B. Toeniskoetter

Abstract

Nineteenth Century philosopher Jeremy Bentham designed a prison system known as the Panopticon which was arranged in such a way that a single guard could, at any given time, view the activities and whereabouts of any particular prisoner. Bentham designed the prison in such a way that the prisoners could never tell whether they were being watched. Twentieth Century French philosopher Michel Foucault further considered use of the Panopticon as a means of societal control through fear in his seminal book Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison.

Recommended Citation

Steven B. Toeniskoetter, Preventing A Modern Panopticon: Law Enforcement Acquisition Of Real-Time Cellular Tracking Data, 13 Rich. J.L. & Tech 16 (2007).
Available at: https://scholarship.richmond.edu/jolt/vol13/iss4/3