The mass surveillance industry is a multibillion-dollar industry that has undergone phenomenal growth since 2001. According to data provided by The Wall Street Journal, the retail market for surveillance tools has grown from "nearly zero" in 2001 to about US$5 billion in 2011.[1] The size of the video surveillance market rose to US$13.5 billion in 2012 and is expected to reach US$39 billion by 2020.[2][needs update]
- ^ Jennifer Valentino-Devries; Julia Angwin; Steve Stecklow. "Document Trove Exposes Surveillance Methods". The Wall Street Journal.
Intelligence agencies in the U.S. and abroad have long conducted their own surveillance. But in recent years, a retail market for surveillance tools has sprung up from "nearly zero" in 2001 to about $5 billion a year, said Jerry Lucas, president of TeleStrategies Inc., the show's operator.
- ^ "The great surveillance boom". CNN. Archived from the original on 24 September 2013. Retrieved 22 September 2013.