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• Increased use of science and thecnology to fight crime invades personal privacy
• United Kingdom is the most controled nation in the world
• London: 4 million CCTV, you are captured on camera approximately 300 times a day (Big Brother Society)
• CCTV -people feel unconfortable watched -no way to interact with who control our pictures -invasion of public space -big coast for society -reduce the possibility of a genuine civilizationt
• Internet: individual database (authorities have acsess to informations we search on internet -they enter in our house) -is used from managers to controll either employer's private life and work
• Other thecnologies that invade privacy: -oystercard (control our displacement) -microchips (installed in people or rental car) -RFID (installed in products that we buy to know people's shopping habits)
• Everyone is considered a potential criminal
• Surveillance is a big business (300 millions of pounds spent only for cctv)
• There is no balance between surveillance and people privacy -Are we ready to renounce to our privacy living in the hopness that this advanced thecnologies will help in the fight against crime in a concrete way?