  This chapter explores the role of patent protection in algorithmic
surveillance and whether ordre public exceptions from patentability should
apply to such patents, due to their potential to enable human rights
violations. It concludes that in most cases, it is undesirable to exclude
algorithmic surveillance patents from patentability, as the patent system is
ill-equipped to evaluate the impacts of the exploitation of such technologies.
Furthermore, the disclosure of such patents has positive externalities from the
societal perspective by opening the black box of surveillance for public
scrutiny.
