Digital Surveillance

The word surveillance has been derived from the French word which literally means “watching over.” So surveillance refers to the art of watching over people or things or objects. But nowadays the word has come to represent intrusion into privacy, not least through surveillance by governments and private business.

With the advent of different types of digital instruments surveillance has been made it easier, continuing to threaten our civil liberties.  The use of digital instruments such as close circuit cameras helps in keeping an eye over the smallest of movements of the people. The transmitters along with the GPS (Global Positioning System) can track the movement of a person across the globe. Similarly the telephonic conversation of an employee can also be recorded and kept for reference later on. read more....