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.

翻译：本章探讨了专利保护在算法监控中的作用，以及是否应因其可能侵犯人权而对这类专利适用专利性公共秩序例外。结论认为，在大多数情况下，将算法监控专利排除在专利性之外并不可取，因为专利制度缺乏评估此类技术开发影响的能力。此外，从社会角度看，这类专利的公开具有正向外部性——它为公众审视打开了监控技术的黑箱。