Visibility is a Trap

Visibility is a trap In today’s technologically advanced world, surveillance capabilities have surpassed new heights. The monitoring of the behavior and activities of certain subjects can be done by someone on the other side of the planet and can provide whatever desirable information to the party that is watching. It is well known by society that surveillance is a very powerful tool used by governments and law enforcement agencies to maintain social control, monitor and eliminate threats, prevent and investigate criminal activity and generally maintain control over society. With technologies such as high-speed surveillance computers and biometric software, governments now possess unprecedented abilities to monitor the activities of their subjects. This increase in technology has changed the general way society behaves on the whole. We live in a world where there are cameras on every traffic light, tool booth, in every airport, every hospital, and every school or any social institution. In relation to Foucault’s Panopticism theory, people that are aware of the fact that at any given moment they can possibly be being watched, carry out their lives in such a way that reflects this knowledge. In the movie, The Bourne Legacy (2012), The United States Defense Department runs a black ops program called Operation Outcome, which employ pills that enhance the physical and mental capabilities of field operatives. The Central Intelligence Agency keeps a close eye on all the subjects enrolled in the program through the use of tracking devices and satellite technology as to maintain control and power over them in the incident that something may go wrong. Through the plot of the movie the CIA’s programs Blackbriar and Treadstone are publicly exposed leading the FBI and United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to investigate the CIA. Consequently the CIA decides to shut down Operation