SOSC 1375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Premarital Sex, Surveillance Aircraft, Computer And Network Surveillance

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1375
• Professor: Dena Demos

Document Summary

The monitoring of the behavior, activities, or other changing information, usually for the purpose of influencing, managing, directing, or protecting \ Most usually involves observation of individuals or groups of government organization. We are deploying ever more sophisticated ways of keeping watch over one another. These surveillance strategies are not ushered in with dramatic displays of state power, nor do they appear as challenges to constitutional democracy. Nearly 90% of u. s. manufacturers test for drug-use amongst their employees. \ One company alone (in massachusetts), tracks web-surfing of over 30 million internet users. Surveillance is useful to government and law enforcements to maintain social control, recognize and monitor threats, and prevent/investigate criminal activity. Civil rights groups are concerned that mass surveillance will result in limited non-existent political and/or personal freedom. A circular building with the central control tower control internalized. Total visibility of the prisoners, invisibility of guard, or anybody taking the position in the central control tower (subject position);