surveillance society
Monitored citizenry everywhere
A surveillance society is one in which citizens are routinely monitored through technology—security cameras, data collection, location tracking, online activity logs.
The term carries critical connotations, suggesting that such monitoring erodes privacy and enables authoritarian control: We're sleepwalking into a surveillance society.
It evokes Orwell's Big Brother, though modern surveillance is often corporate as much as governmental.
- Big BrotherTotalitarian surveillance authority
- camerasVisual recording devices
- chilling effectDiscouragement through intimidation
- dystopian fictionStories depicting terrible futures
- self-censorshipRestraining one's own expression
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