These are strong voices, far stronger than, say, the voice of Norm Siegel, the Executive Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, who has appeared in one or two of the TV shows that have featured the SCP, but whose position with respect to the advancement of individual freedom is relatively weak .
Surveillance is an intranational and transnational phenomenon.
Not only do governments and police forces spy on their own people, but they also spy on the police, governments and police forces of other countries, as well. It would appear from the press release distributed by ORF 2 on the day of the broadcast that the SCP's presence at the end does indeed have an effect on the entire programme. In the network there is total surveillance will be presented as part of the Focus Point series. At the same time that, in the USA, citizens' rights to privacy are being loudly proclaimed on the Internet and, in New York, the Surveillance Camera Players perform activist street-theater against the Surveillance State, there is little awareness of these problems in Europe. With Bill in the background, performing You are being watched for your own safety and Headline News for a webcam, Susan gives copies of this map to passersby, talks to a few of them and explains that the use cameras in public places is an invasion of privacy.