The Sources of Law in the Field of Security Illustrate This Change

States have always been attracted to notions of control and surveillance. This is also true for the most prominent agents involved in Economics and Finance. Technologies relating to information and communications, nanotechnology and the technologies involved in environmental industries and services fit perfectly in this unipolar and singlecentered world, where they take up a role of mass surveillance and monitoring. In this backdrop of heightened surveillance, video surveillance, more than ever, played an eminent role in the United Kingdom. Video surveillance systems could be biometric or vocal. Experiments were carried out and exploited. Local authorities in Newham have possessed a video surveillance system since 1998 that was capable of facial recognition from a police database of known criminals and delinquents. It is the police agents and officers and not the legal persons eminent in video surveillance that are responsible for installing the devices.