How Surveillance Is Affecting the American Freedom

How Surveillance Is Affecting the American Freedom

Introduction

Surveillance means to monitor the activities of the individuals. The monitoring function is to observe the activities of individuals or groups of individuals. In the purely technical term, it is also known as supervision or monitoring. Surveillance can be covert or overt. It has always been present in human history. The Art of War of Sun Tzu, written 2,500 years ago, described how spies should be used against enemies. However the electronics and modern technology computer brought to supervision a new scope. The cons-monitoring is the practice of avoiding surveillance or making it difficult. With recent developments - such as Internet, electronic security systems, databases - against the surveillance has expanded in scope and complexity. Today the cons-monitoring involves including all matters relating to privacy. Monitoring practice is reversed monitoring, such as citizens photographing police or clients photographing sellers. Clinical monitoring is monitoring events with a risk or significant impact on public health (such as infectious diseases or chronic diseases) (Lyon, David, 2007). This paper would focus on the study of how the new surveillance systems are affecting the diminishing freedoms and privacy of the people living in the US.

Discussion

Video surveillance and security

CCTV can now be found everywhere. Whether it's store, parking, building entrances or hallways - anywhere is an electronic eye that observes and records everything happening in the brain CCTV everything that is happening in the county. On the one hand, the craze for services to ensure the safety and security systems, video surveillance is justified. The camcorder can "remember" the offender, and then, according to the available "image" it is possible to find a villain, plus to all the illusion that the necessary level of protection provided, and so confident, why it grows in proportion to expenditure on a video surveillance system in particular, the number of cameras. I'm often on the type of activity have to deal with the various surveillance systems installed at various sites, and half the cost of business to ensure its security expensive toys exceed all reasonable limits. The fact that the video surveillance system - a toy is really expensive and its use should be justified only by measures absolutely necessary; we will talk a little bit later (Lyon, David, 2007).

So, let's all the same we shall understand whether the system provides surveillance of the desired effect and are the most important thing - how reasonable the cost of the acquisition, installation and operation of CCTV systems, and what economic benefits they bring. Many experts in the field of security , which I had to communicate, agree that CCTV is not a panacea for theft, embezzlement and other illegal actions of intruders. Sometimes, the cost of video surveillance systems up to several hundreds of thousands and sometimes millions of rubles, but the emergency at the sites as a place, and occur with surprising regularity. Some members of security services and even the management of security services businesses and organizations ...