Privacy in the digital age
Friday, October 16, 2009 by JCT
Living in our digital age has left us more exposed than ever before - we are all participants either knowingly or not.
Public surveillance technology is increasingly rampant in western societies with surveillance cameras installed in many suspecting and unsuspecting corners of urban cities with CCTV in London as the most surveillant city in the world. While CCTV is monitored by qualified CCTV workers, I discovered this article http://www.cctvcore.co.uk/15-10-2009-internet-eyes-could-be-on-you.html which expolits citizens lack of privacy further by giving anyone with internet acccess the ability to view CCTV footage of people in shops. This proposal will be launched later this year which further suggests that the concept of privacy is losing grip in the western digital spheres. After shopping centres, the scheme will surely hit the streets, and any other public spaces. A future of being able to watch anyone, anywhere from the comfort of your own home could possibly be the near distant future. And if it does? Privacy is dead.
Public surveillance technology is increasingly rampant in western societies with surveillance cameras installed in many suspecting and unsuspecting corners of urban cities with CCTV in London as the most surveillant city in the world. While CCTV is monitored by qualified CCTV workers, I discovered this article http://www.cctvcore.co.uk/15-10-2009-internet-eyes-could-be-on-you.html which expolits citizens lack of privacy further by giving anyone with internet acccess the ability to view CCTV footage of people in shops. This proposal will be launched later this year which further suggests that the concept of privacy is losing grip in the western digital spheres. After shopping centres, the scheme will surely hit the streets, and any other public spaces. A future of being able to watch anyone, anywhere from the comfort of your own home could possibly be the near distant future. And if it does? Privacy is dead.