Jason Bennetto, Crime Correspondent for The Independent wrote in 2006:
“Britain has sleepwalked into becoming a surveillance society”.
The argument for how many times the average person is caught on CCTV as they go about their delay business is much debated. Some reports have indicated that it could be as high as 300 times per day, but on investigation, there appear to be critics who question this number. Whatever the true number may be, it only takes a moment to look around your surroundings to establish that there are a large number of lenses watching you.
Reports recently have revealed an alarming new trend in surveillance. A high-school in Pennsylvania reportedly provided students laptops with webcams that could be remotely accessed. A case has been brought against the school after one of it’s pupils was disciplined for “improper behaviour in his home”.
http://craphound.com/robbins17.pdf
There is equally another side to the question of privacy and surveillance: Why do we so freely self-survey? Social networking and blogging show how increasingly we feel comfortable to share details of our everyday movements with the public.
“Britain has sleepwalked into becoming a surveillance society”.
The argument for how many times the average person is caught on CCTV as they go about their delay business is much debated. Some reports have indicated that it could be as high as 300 times per day, but on investigation, there appear to be critics who question this number. Whatever the true number may be, it only takes a moment to look around your surroundings to establish that there are a large number of lenses watching you.
Reports recently have revealed an alarming new trend in surveillance. A high-school in Pennsylvania reportedly provided students laptops with webcams that could be remotely accessed. A case has been brought against the school after one of it’s pupils was disciplined for “improper behaviour in his home”.
http://craphound.com/robbins17.pdf
There is equally another side to the question of privacy and surveillance: Why do we so freely self-survey? Social networking and blogging show how increasingly we feel comfortable to share details of our everyday movements with the public.
Whether good or bad, it is now inevitable that we share our image.
Happy V Day!
