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Machado, H. & Frois, C. (2021). Aspiring to modernize: Current trends in state surveillance in Portugal. In Theoharis Yannis, Kaniadakis Antonios (Ed.), The new digital surveillance. Atenas: Papazisi Publishers.

H. C. Machado and C. L. Frois,  "Aspiring to modernize: Current trends in state surveillance in Portugal", in The new digital surveillance, Theoharis Yannis, Kaniadakis Antonios, Ed., Atenas, Papazisi Publishers, 2021

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	author = "Machado, H. and Frois, C.",
	title = "Aspiring to modernize: Current trends in state surveillance in Portugal",
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	booktitle = "The new digital surveillance",
	year = "2021",
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TY  - CHAP
TI  - Aspiring to modernize: Current trends in state surveillance in Portugal
T2  - The new digital surveillance
AU  - Machado, H.
AU  - Frois, C.
PY  - 2021
CY  - Atenas
UR  - https://www.politeianet.gr/books/9789600239027-sullogiko-papazisis-i-nea-psifiaki-parakolouthisi-340259
AB  - In various countries throughout the world, the bureaucratic development of the modern states has
been accompanied by the creation of identification systems whose purpose is to collect, store and
manage personal and biometric data about its citizens. In this chapter we analyse the establishment
of a national DNA database for criminal and civil forensic identification and the intention of
implementing CCTV (closed-circuit television) in open areas on a national scale.
The comprehensive analysis of these processes in the Portuguese context is especially relevant due
mainly to the fact that, on the one hand, we are considering a country with a long history of a political
dictatorship in the twentieth century (1928- 1974) characterized by political and police repression and
censorship and, on the other hand, a newly democratic state divided between the quest for
modernization and uniformity by following the paths of surveillance implemented in other European
countries (considered to be more advanced) while at the same time struggling with its own cultural
and social specificities marked by scarce economic resources and low criminality rates.
From our point of view, it is intriguing that Portugal has a long and social history of citizens'
apparently passive compliance with the state's requirements of collecting diverse sorts of personal
identification data and, at the same time, both national and international studies suggest that public
confidence in the state, the police and the justice system is weak in European terms (Cabral et al.
2003). In fact, this is one of the countries in which the majority of respondents consider that the
institutions that are most affected by corruption in the country are politics, business, the police and
the judiciary (Transparency International 2020).

ER  -