A Surveillance Society Summary

In the article “A Surveillance Society” by William E. Thompson and Joseph V. Hickey, the authors explain the growing rate of security cameras and ways of surveillance that are appearing in cities and communities. With time there has been an abundant increase of surveillance in societies all around. With that, there has been a controversial discussion as to how it is possibly an invasion of privacy for certain types of surveillance to be able to access private items without permission. Thompson pointed out that almost all public places a person might go has surveillance of some type. Some of the more common types Thompson indicated were face recognition, license plate readers and regular surveillance cameras. The author expressed in the article