With technology and crime on the rise these days, it was only a matter of time before a company combined the two to make it work to their advantage. Internet Eyes, a company in the UK, has found the way to hire people to watch shoppers with surveillance cameras in stores to watch shoppers from the comfort of their home.
I have mixed feelings about the way it violates people's privacy. Many retail stores worldwide already have surveillance cameras in their store as a loss prevention tool. Shoppers know this and they have come to terms with it. As long as the surveillance cameras aren't placed in the store's restrooms or fitting rooms, people know their every move is recorded by surveillance cameras.
Internet Eyes has made it more effective because most surveillance videos are viewed after the crime has been committed. Many times crimes go undetected because the surveillance videos are not being used properly. (i.e. Don’t have a tape, are not recording at all times, etc…) I think that this system already exists here in the United States. It’s just that we haven’t gotten as carried away as the UK and adopt their ”dataveillance” system. The problem with that is that it would eventually work its way to that point. By trying to be too careful and watchful over people , you can also be putting them at risk. What would happen if your dataveillance falls into the wrong hands? Would be just as bad as or worse than having your identity stole here in the US?
The article in Britain is 'surveillance society' a report shows the UK to be “the most surveilled country.” Their dataveillance records your every little move, your mobile phone triangulation, credit card transactions, satellites, phone tapping, keystroke programmes, even your mobile phone cameras to name a few.
The craziest part, as shown in US and UK have become "endemic" surveillance societies.The US and UK’s are shown to be in the same category when it comes to their privacy and “endemic surveillance" right along with Russia, and China.
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