week four-the advantage and disadvantage of surveillance

Surveillance is used in many industries. In this way, people can use the digital technologies to observe the activity of what they want to see.As the digital technologies product can record of the reality in time, surveillance can provide the in time recording  It is a big advantage for the organization to meet the reality record. Police and security staffs rely on video surveillance make their work more easily.

 With the development of technology, there is improving with monitoring technology. For example, in the underground station, it always has a lot of people. It is difficult to monitor in these place. (Elhamod, 2013)CCTV makes a big help in surveillance. It watches suspicious activities and transmit photos and videos back to the control station. It is the use for the reality life. In the virtual network, the data, information surveillance make the relevant organization get what they want. According to the American management Association and the ePolicy Institute(2008)that take a survey about surveillance approximately 300 US companies, there is a big proportion of fired employers for misusing the internet.(Allmer,2011) surveillance can bring reality and in time data. For the supervisor, it gets information for them. 

 The internet has created many new information and personal security issues. (Flew, 2008) The big issue of surveillance is the privacy security. For the individual, privacy is important. Under the surveillance, it is difficult to keep privacy. Economical and political actors use surveillance in order to control a certain behavior of people that do not know what they are surveilled. (Allmer, 2011) privacy and law embodies a confliction and value. 








References:

Allmer, T. (2011) Critical Surveillance Studies in the Information Society. TripleC (Cognition, Communication, Co-Operation): Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society. 9(2). P566-592

Elhamod, M. (2013) Automated Real-Time Detection of Potentially Suspicious Behavior in Public Transport Areas.IEEE Transactions On Intelligent Transportation Systems. 14 (2) 688-699.

Flew, T. (2008) New media: An introduction. Oxford:Oxford University Press