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Résumé L'industrie et les services de surveillance à distance constituent un secteur économiquement prospère depuis le début des années 1990. Si les collectivités publiques investissent massivement dans ces équipements, les propriétaires privés (particuliers, chefs d'entreprise, commerçants, etc.) ne sont pas en reste. La question de la régulation par l'État du marché de la techno-sécurité s'en trouve du même coup soulevée.

Law and Practice of New Technologies : Issues in Regulation of Close Circuit Television (CCTV).
Social relations are increasingly determined by information and communication techniques. A better understanding of this expanding field of research may be obtained by showing how regulations tend to alter the techniques themselves. The aim of this article is twofold : firstly, to describe the present context in which Prefects legalise and control CCTV techniques i.e. by revealing political assumptions underlying the law and observing the various simplifications of the problem within secondary norms necessary for its practical implementation ; secondly, to oppose these assumptions and real practices (stated and latent) in CCTV, using examples drawn from field research. This latter approach suggests that organisations equipped with CCTV are increasingly led to emphasise security aspects in order to improve the professional ability of policemen regarding urban insecurity, although this is not necessarily the principal role of these techniques.