Dublin, Jan. 27, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Global Societal Surveillance Market by Technology, Solution, Applications, and Services 2021 - 2026" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

This research evaluates the companies, strategies, technologies and solutions involved in this emerging surveillance society market. It provides analysis and forecasting for key technologies and solutions including digital identity, tracking, mobile payments, blockchain technology, social credit systems, social distancing solutions, digital twins, augmented and virtual reality.

Based on several key drivers, there is a major cultural shift underway towards a surveillance society, which entails primarily observation, tracking, and analysis of human behaviors. Rapidly becoming a social norm in some parts of the world, surveillance gained substantial societal support due to the need to surveil certain individuals that may be foreign state-actor supported terrorists, or in some cases, domestic enemies of the state.

However, other factors, such as state control over civilian behavior have taken the fore with the rise of social credit monitoring and the advent of COVID-19, which have dramatically reinforced the notion that surveilling citizens provides a net benefit to society. Recent concerns and threats stemming from the pandemic have added a new dimension of safety and security to protect human lives. The new expectation will have a longer-term impact of routine behavior and processes. In addition to physical threats associated with pandemics, bad actors also seize the opportunity to engage in various threats against cyber infrastructure.

By way of example, a recent initiative known as the Vaccination Credential Initiative (VCI), was formed by leading technology companies such as Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, and others for purposes of tracking COVID-19 vaccinations. More specifically, the VCI's stated purpose is to empower individuals with digital access to their vaccination records based on open, interoperable standards so they can achieve two things: (1) protect and improve their health, and (2) demonstrate their health status to safely return to travel, work, school and life while protecting their data privacy.

When viewed as a whole as positive, the notion is that societal surveillance provides greater benefits than losses in terms of overall personal privacy. These benefits may include the ability to mitigate the impact of pandemics. On the other hand, the downside of civil surveillance is considered trading safety for liberty. Especially in the United States, the freedom to act anonymously is considered by many to be a core right of democracy in terms of civil liberties identified in the Bill of Rights.

The post-pandemic era provides ample justification for persistent citizen identification and continuous tracking and tracing of location and social interactions. All of the key technologies used are evaluated throughout this research, which includes radio communications with devices, optical analysis via video and still pictures, and even via advanced biometrics such as unique biological signatures and presence as may be detected by ubiquitous sensors with reads transmitted via IoT and evaluated via AI-enabled analytics.

Many of the technologies used for machine-related monitoring and analysis, such as computer vision for autonomous vehicles, shall be augmented for use in the social distancing solutions market in terms of identification, tracking, and tracing human behaviors. For example, real-world physical access is anticipated to be impacted in a big way due to the pandemic. Accordingly, the publisher sees a keen need for physical access controls, transforming how citizens travel, use public places, and interact with other people. These social distancing market technologies will provide the basis for solutions that enable tracking/identifying people for access to airports, parks, sporting venues, and other public places.

The ability to identify, track, and correlate digital and physical identity is of paramount importance to the societal surveillance market. By way of example, digital currencies such as Bitcoin provide for a certain level of anonymity in terms of financial transactions. However, the underlying technology in support of crypto-currencies, blockchain technology, is being adopted by China as it looks to unveil a digital-only version of its currency, which would provide unprecedented governmental oversight and control over transactions. This fits with their drive towards a social credit society in which every citizens' actions are observed and considered.

There is an emerging market for surveilling society, which includes observation, tracking, and data analytics to gather and analyze data. This market also involves the use of additional technologies such as the combination of digital twin technology, augmented and virtual reality to provide an improved means of observing and interacting with citizens. Additionally, governments may leverage the ability to observe citizen behaviors by tracking digital payments in an increasingly cashless global society.

This market also includes the ability to score citizens as part of an overall social credit system that goes beyond "acceptable" and "unacceptable" individual behaviors to focus on government mandates such as compliance with public safety rulings associated with virus outbreaks.

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1. Executive Summary

2. Asset Tracking Market Segmentation

3. Introduction

4. Asset Tracking Solutions

5. Asset Tracking in Industry Verticals

6. Company Analysis

7. Asset Tracking Market Forecasts 2021 - 2026

8. Conclusions and Recommendations

9. Appendix: Slap-and-Track Asset Tracking Solutions Market 2021 - 2026

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2. Introduction

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4. Blockchain Market Outlook and Forecasts 2021 - 2026

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6 Conclusions and Recommendations

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1. Executive Summary

2. Introduction

3. Social Credit System Technologies and Applications

4. Company Analysis

5. Social Credit Systems Market Analysis and Forecasts

6. Conclusions and Recommendations

7. Appendix: Social Credit Market Supporting Technologies

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1.0 Executive Summary

2.0 Introduction

3.0 Technology and Application Analysis

4.0 Social Distancing Solutions Company Analysis

5.0 Social Distancing Market Analysis and Forecasts

6.0 Conclusions and Recommendations

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1. Executive Summary

2. Introduction

3. Digital Twins Company Assessment

4. Digital Twins Market Analysis and Forecasts

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1. Executive Summary

2. Introduction

3. AI Intellectual Property Leadership by Country and Company

4. AI in ICT Market Analysis and Forecasts 2021 - 2026

5. AI in Select Industry Verticals

6. AI in Major Market Segments

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8. AI in ICT Use Cases

9. AI in ICT Vendor Analysis

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11. Appendix: Key AI in ICT Patents

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1. Executive Summary

2. Introduction

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4. Big Data Technologies and Business Cases

5. Key Sectors for Big Data

6. Big Data Value Chain

7. Big Data Analytics

8. Standardization and Regulatory Issues

9. Key Big Data Companies and Solutions

10. Overall Big Data Market Analysis and Forecasts 2021 - 2026

11. Big Data Market Segment Analysis and Forecasts 2021 - 2026

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1. Executive Summary

2. Introduction

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4. Mobile Payments Ecosystem

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1. Executive Summary

2. Introduction

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5. Company Analysis

6. Market Analysis and Forecast

7. Conclusions and Recommendations

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Global Societal Surveillance Market Research 2021: COVID-19 has Dramatically Reinforced the Notion that Surveilling Citizens Provides a Net Benefit to...