Everything we do is monitored in today's society. Cameras write tickets to drivers, are used by campus monitors to track down students, and the government searches computer records and emails. Is all this monitoring an invasion of privacy? Has our society become too heavily monitored and controlled? Is this a threat to our freedom, or is it necessary to keep control in our society?
If we lived in an utopia, then security and cameras would not be necessary. However, there are so many murderers, psychopaths, and criminals in this world. All of the cameras are used only to protect the safety of the general public.
ReplyDeleteI agree. It's one of Foucault's three systems of modern social control (hierarchical surveillance) and without it contemporary cities with millions of people in them (many of them deviants) would be impossible to monitor and control. Big Brother is scary if he is a tool of social control for a dictatorship but pretty effective if he is used as a system of control for a Democracy.
DeleteI say it is, if we want to keep down crime, we must educate the masses on what crimes are, and how to prevent them, no more money should go to these "surveillance" systems and should return to the public services and education.
ReplyDeleteHow about the bomb threat at our school last semester? Its a good thing we had a surveillance systems, because if that were real and we didn't have surveillance systems then none of us would be here.
DeleteYeah complete invasion of privacy!
ReplyDeleteSecurity cameras are waste of money, people still do whatever they want with security cameras. Security cameras at schools never catch anything. At our school things get stolen everyday and no one ever gets caught even though we have security cameras everywhere. We should use the money we waste on security cameras to build schools in Africa.
ReplyDeleteDat oBAMA is waching me as i do mah things, and now my own xbox kinect is whaching meh do mah laundray!
ReplyDeleteI believe that security cameras are not an invasion of privacy because they help keep our society in line.
ReplyDeleteAfter what has happened with the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, the US government has been monitoring citizens and what they search due to the efforts to protect the US. If you're not doing anything wrong, why should anybody be worried about the government watching over what they're doing?
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