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Surveillance Privacy Protection (SPP) is a realistic issue in the world we are living in today. Due to the massive progress in technologies and systems, surveillance is becoming quite impossible to avoid. More information is being handed out without realizing the risks involved. The objective of this chapter is to evaluate what types of surveillance, privacy and protection measures are being implemented, how information is being used and what rights individuals have over this. In addition, this chapter also emphasizes the importance of tools, data sets and databases that are being developed to enable surveillance privacy.

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Gulzar, N., Abbasi, B., Wu, E., Ozbal, A., Yan, W. (2013). Surveillance Privacy Protection. In: Atrey, P., Kankanhalli, M., Cavallaro, A. (eds) Intelligent Multimedia Surveillance. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41512-8_5

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