As time has gone on society has become increasingly mistrusting and controlling of the people in it. You can't do or say anything without it being watched. Even the most simplest acts such as parking your car is under the eye of surveillance. The real question is that if these cameras were not in place, would people really act differently? 'Surveillance is based on a system of permanent registration'.These days you may walk into a shop and notice a camera or television looking at you, but are these a ploy? Do they actually work? Surveillance is an expensive way of controlling society, some of this devices are just a way of making people feel as though they are under investigation, even when they haven't done anything wrong. Surveillance makes people subconsciously conform to certain behaviours depending on where they are. It makes people feel vulnerable and less likely to do something that would be frowned upon. Similarly with speed cameras. By putting a speed camera on a road, whether it is working or not, people are going to ensure they are going under the speed limit as they are ware of the consequences. However, it is not just electronic devices that make this behaviour enforced. In a lot of places where they are security cameras, their is a security guard. People dressed in uniform gives off a sense of authority and power. These figures 'order to see perfect discipline functioning'. But looking closely into how technology has become a way of controlling members of the public, the person behing the control pannel can look into areas of peoples lives that they didn't even know; text messages, emails even listen in too telephone calls.
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