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'The advantages of a ' surveillance society ' far out weigh the draw backs' To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

It is considered that 'surveillance society' has far more advantages than the draw backs in this complicated society .The use of CCTV is becoming more and more widespread in recent 20 years.In Britain (1996)between 150 and 300 million pounds (225 - 450 million dollars) per year is now spent on a surveillance industry involving an estimated 300,000 cameras . 1
Especially in public spaces ,such as factories, offices, dwelling areas , supermarkets, shopping mall etc, which are closely related to people due to the security requirement, bringing a lots of advantages to the society.Currently a hot issue is that it may bring negative effect by violating individual privacy to install CCTV in public places. However, it is not reasonable to deal with private affairs in these places,and therefore the installation of CCTV is acceptable. The primary purpose is to prevent from possible theft. Meanwhile, it is better to master personnel by this way rather than any thought of violating privacy.This paper will compare the pros and cons about monitors,secondly discuss how to make the objectors to accept the CCTV.



CCTV are set in public other than sneakily functioning to increase sense of safety among common people as well as to threaten potential criminals. When the crime cases happen, it is always the convenient way to replay the video by CCTV to search for any clue. When we get a ticket for running a red light,when no one was around but the camera.It is not just that CCTV may capture our image several hundred times a day, that check-out clerks want to see our loyalty cards in the supermarket or that we need a coded access card to get into the office in the morning. It is that these systems represent a basic, complex infrastructure which assumes that gathering and processing personal data is vital to contemporary living.


References
1.Davies, S 1996 ,Big Brother : 'Britain's web of surveillance and the new technological order', Pan Books, London, p. 183.