Surveillance is the monitoring of the behavior, activities, or other changing information, usually of people and often in a surreptitious manner. It most usually refers to observation of individuals or groups. Surveillance maintains social control, recognizes and monitor threats, and prevent/investigate criminal activity.
Some supporters of surveillance systems believe that these tools protect society from terrorists and criminals. Other supporters simply believe that there is nothing that can be done about it, and that people must become accustomed to having no privacy. As Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy said: "You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.”
Some groups fear that society is moving towards a state of mass surveillance with severely limited personal, social, political freedoms, where dissenting individuals or groups will be strategically removed.
I have pretty much just been doing surveillance on people. Watching them as they walk by, trying to see what they are up to when they think nobody is watching. My last attempt at this was using a rearview mirror and trying to photograph the people in the cars behind me. This feat is actually difficult and I am having a hard time doing it.
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