Last I have discussed about the advantages of public surveillance. Like I have promised, in this entry I will discuss about the disadvantages of public surveillance. What does the government take away from its citizens to reach goals to increase safety? It could costs us our privacy or freedom. Due to reduce the rate of crime, the government should increase the control of its citizens. With the development of technology, the government may obtain too much power, so sometimes it may ignore something which are also important rights for people.
Disadvantages of government surveillance :
1) It invades privacy - Most people are paranoid of the fact that they are being watched and that they might have lose their freedom of privacy of life.
2) government may have too much power to control its citizens’ lives - The government will have a great facility to do surveillance on their people. Even when the leader are using it with good intention, what happens when there are changes of leaders and their cabinet and the new leader decided to use the convenience of surveillance for his bad intentions.
3) Using our images for the wrong reason - People might use some of the images obtained from surveillance cameras for blackmailing or for their own personal gain in some way instead of using the surveillance cameras for catching people committing crimes
4) Mistakes - Technologies like Cameras and computers can also make mistakes for example speed cameras on occasions are known to exaggerate the speed a car is going and give it a ticket when it was actually driving the regular speed.
In a nutshell, it is actually depends on the government and its people to decide which is the best. I can understand that we have the potential to establish a safer with government surveillance.
However, governments should try not to reduce citizens’ rights of
freedom and privacy. The government should respect these but not ignore
them to achieve the goals.
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