My research for the seminar tomorrow!
We can characterise London like a ‘surveillance society’, while as you can see in a lot of articles, there are a significant number of CCTV cameras in London, also at Heathrow airport start to use biometrics, the police use DNA database to indentify the murder of a crime or the robber, etc.. In my opinion, all these techniques are suitable and useful in our days, because people became more violent and we need this safe!!!
At these sites, there is an opposite opinion about CCTV cameras, while some people believe that CCTV cameras didn’t solve any problem of crime or robberies
- http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/londons_cameras_1.html,
- http://pcworld.about.com/od/techindustrytrends/CCTV-cameras-don-t-solve-crime.htm.
Below there are some articles for DNA database
- http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3423450.ece
- http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article3423669.ece
- http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3410814.ece
- http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3419837.ece
Electronic tagging
In my opinion, electronic tagging isn’t so good, because isn’t the ‘correct’ punishment for these people who do soothing bad in our society! It is more strong to be in a prison than to stay at home and if you stay at your home you could see all your people who love, so that it isn’t a punishment!!
For and against using or increasing these forms of surveillance technology
- http://archives.cnn.com/2002/LAW/10/21/ctv.cameras/
- http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/Articles4(1)/student.pdf
- http://www.mysocialnetwork.net/blog/410/g42/2006/11/surveillance_in_our_contempora.html
Surveillance technology in the future
‘We have to move ourselves into this new world. It is a great challenge for us.’
But the question is: how safe is this new world????
I believe, people could never feel safe, because always there are improvements which are more powerful than us.
Goodnight...
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