Everyone wants to know everyone else's business. It has become almost unescapable for contemporary society to live without privacy. The authors all agree that stopping surveillance is almost impossible. What can be done according to Simon G. Davies, is promote public awareness on privacy issues, just as this book attempts to do. The other option Davies sees is to develop a scoring system which will measure and set limits on surveillance.
All societies tolerate some surveillance for law enforcement and security purposes.
These are the difficult questions we must answer with the continual improvement in technology. Critique The organization of this book was outstanding, and it helped to group specific essays together to illustrate how computers, surveillance, and privacy effected areas such as the workplace, the marketplace, and culture. I was able to follow the discussions and ideas the authors were trying to convey without having to stop and think about what area the paper was focusing on. Privacy has become a huge issue and prior to reading this book, I was unaware of just how much privacy I had lost. The authors are right in agreeing that the best way to overcome the problems associated with surveillance is to create an awareness on privacy issues.