Sunday, December 9, 2012

Journal 7: Surveillance

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In general, when I think of surveillance, what comes to my mind are the security cameras in stores, and officers walking around making small notes here and there on a notepad.  With the services like Google Maps and gps maps, it’s not too much of an invasion of privacy. The only concern would probably be if the “street view” were at a much higher resolution of image and at the same time live footage. My reasoning is that if such features were enabled, then people would be able to look through the front window of your homes and have a glimpse of the people and the interior of the home. Also it would allow people to have access any time they want, and no one wants some stranger to be spying on them.
            In the future a given would be the better hardware and software technology, so the hypothesized features I mentioned before would be possible. The chance of surveillance being more invasive is high as well. House security would probably be the most invasive, since some security companies have ways to monitor the interior of almost every room in households. Although to counteract the whole privacy deal, the surveillance would hopefully be improved to the point where crime rates drop.

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