I understand this view on people using surveillance as a security perspective, even for me when I am walking through a shopping mall, with people there or not, I feel safe knowing there is someone of authority watching over me. But are they really watching over me?!
You often here about all of these attacks in shopping malls and car parks that are so terrible and then you later get pleas from the police with pictures of the attack off CCTV cameras. But why wasnt someone watching these cameras at the time of the attack and did something to prevent it happening?? Obviously someone wasnt watching those cameras at these times.

Of course there are other ways that you can count as surveillance, one being one of my favourite past times of just sitting watching people. In town there is a pub called the charles grey, and if you get a both in the window you can watch everyone milling around greys monument. Although they are just going about on their everyday business they are still providing me with a thrilling form of entertainment. I once watched a group of school girls get arrested from boots, presumingly for shop lifting or something along those lines. But it did give me and my friend some fantastic entertainment in assuming what they had done wrong. It can provide many hours of entertainment for anyone to do it, to make up stories about passer bys and what their doing.

The other form of surveillance that everyone, well most people, are subjected to everyday is the reality TV shows like big brother and i'm a celebrity. The most annoying shows I have ever experienced in my life. But for some reason people seem to enjoy and take a satification from watching other people being confined to a small space with limited food, whats the fun in that? personally it grinds on me but there you go! But it just takes away these peoples privacy, given that they go in to these places under a volunetary situation, they still loose their privacy and have people watching them on a day to day basis taking a satisfication from their dilemas and their sadness or happiness.

Part two to follow tomorrow.....