“Science of Surveillance” is about how surveillance technology is a growing industry and how it could be used to help society, but also how it could end up leading to extreme invasions of privacy. The first example of surveillance in this video is that London has installed cameras on almost every corner of every busy street. The cameras track the license plates of the cars driving by and record when they all come and go (Science). Some buildings have cameras so high-tech that even though they are mounted on forty-foot high ceilings, they can easily make out the serial number on a dollar bill (Science). Some airports in the United States have installed iris recognition. To stop people from using forged passports, iris recognition can see a person’s exact and unique color and pattern of the iris in their eye (Science). This is extremely advanced and an invasive use of technology.
A man named Rosner was on his own rooftop on a date with a woman and a surveillance helicopter recorded the end of their date without their knowledge for four whole minutes. He did not find out until a news reporter told him about it months later. There is no reason an areal vehicle needs to be filming random people without their knowledge or consent. This video also mentions the invasive no card no money Baja Club in Holland. Customers that decide to get the chip, have to go to the doctors to get it implanted before they visit the club. The procedure is so intense that they need an anesthetic for it and the chip stays in them for life unless they opt to get surgery to remove it. Deciding to have a foreign object inserted into one’s body is a crazy amount of dangerous surveillance that people do not have the full grasp of. Supervision is getting out of hand everywhere in the world.
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