1. The document discusses the legitimacy and efficacy of various security technologies from multiple perspectives, noting concerns about lack of evidence, costs, impacts on rights and liberties, and political feasibility within a democratic framework. 2. It questions whether citizens and representatives have full information on security technologies' costs and benefits, and whether they are compatible with human rights. 3. The document advocates comparing security proposals to doing nothing and using savings to rebuild and compensate victims, considering negative effects beyond direct costs.

1. Security technology and democratic legitimacy Dr Ian Brown Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford

3. “ We really don't know a whole lot about the overall costs and benefits of homeland security” -senior DHS economist Gary Becker in 2006

4. “ Policy discussions of homeland security issues are driven not by rigorous analysis but by fear, perceptions of past mistakes, pork-barrel politics, and insistence on an invulnerability that cannot possibly be achieved.” -Jeremy Shapiro (2007)

12. Is this politically feasible? Source: Eurobarometer #225 Data Protection in the EU, Feb. 2008 p.48