Law enforcement agencies are often subject to enhanced monitoring and periodic reporting requirements as part of a liberal governance paradigm that entails the protection of human rights. Police and security intelligence agencies must report on their use of surveillance powers, including the number of times they have sought and received warrants to use surveillance devices, the types of investigatory methods deployed, the range of offenses with which they are associated, and the extent to which authorizations for these powers are tied to criminal convictions. These surveillance accountability reports function as a primary mechanism to “monitor” government encroachments into the private sphere—to ensure that liberal democratic principles of fairness, respect for human rights, and the right to privacy are upheld. This article focuses on Australian government surveillance accountability reports as a technology of governmentality and examines how their content and form are intimately connected to broader developments in technology-mediated forms of state surveillance.

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通过问责来治理自由：作为治理技术的监控报告

作为需要保护人权的自由治理范式的一部分，执法机构经常受到加强监测和定期报告的要求。警察和安全情报机构必须报告他们使用监视权力的情况，包括他们寻求和获得使用监视设备的授权的次数、部署的调查方法的类型、与之相关的犯罪范围以及程度这些权力的授权与刑事定罪有关。这些监督问责报告是“监督”政府侵犯私人领域的主要机制——确保公平、尊重人权和隐私权的自由民主原则得到维护。