User:Rob1

=Rob Samuel=

Greetings, my name is Rob and I am in my final year of a BSC/LLB conjoint.

This link is interesting in relation to this course because it contains literature on surveillance and reports about the impacts that these have on society.

This link provides some critical insight to the proliferation of surveillance technologies and the impacts that they have on human society.

This link examines the many positive and negative aspects associated with Closed Circuit Television.

Scratchpad:Digital Worlds:Home

The novel "1984" was written by George Orwell in 1948 and set in a futuristic Socialist country where the State has complete control over individuals. Surveillance technologies are used to keep tight control over any potential enemies of the state, especially people that could effect change. This is a story about the struggle of a man named Winston Smith. After a long time of blind obedience to the Party, Smith comes to recognise the flaws in the Party, the futility of its continuous wars with other states and the brutally repressive treatment of its citizens. The Party endeavours to create a world based on fear, hatred and cruelty while securing complete loyalty from its subjects by breaking down interpersonal relationships. Smith falls in love and has a relationship with a young female Party member but even this bond of love is shattered when they are forced to betray one another.



The movie "Minority Report" is about a police agency called Precrime tasked with preventing murder from ever happening. This is facilitated by a group of three pyschics who are able to predict who will murder and who will be murdered. This conflict between free will and predetermination takes a twist when the tables are turned on the operational head of the Precrime division and he is forced to walk a path which leads him inexorably to the murder of a man he does not even know.