I know some places record the phone calls of their workers, which makes sense as it is a liability issue in this case. There are some pretty good ways to take care of call recording so that as a company you can keep track of your employee’s activities at work. The only reason I tend to be ok with the intrusive actions like that at work is because if you are the employer you are normally going to be held responsible for their actions. That means if they do something stupid you get to pay for it. That is not a fun prospect, not at all. Actually, with call logging you can keep a record of the calls and what is said on your pc. That can be very convenient, although you would have to keep and ensure the stuff was secure because that could be a different but unpleasant liability.

In a way I think it could be a good thing because there are a lot of benefits to having things recorded. Of course, you always have the downside; the absolute possibility of abuse of the system that can occur if things are not kept under control. Think about one person being able to influence your life in innumerable ways, then consider if that person has no morals and disdains ethics. That is where a surveillance society becomes very scary. It can of course get even scarier. I saw the movie Eagle Eye, and while it was entertaining it was also fairly scary because I could see how it could happen with things all being so connected. We just have to watch out and keep laws on the books that protect those with less power. The best thing for that is really not a law but the media.

The good part of a surveillance society is what we ourselves can use. They have vehicle tracking in many countries, as well as laptop and desktop tracking. You can also have cameras in your home and a video system all set up to record anyone who goes in there. A closed system is better; otherwise others might be able to spy on you with your own system. If it is closed then you can have your own spy cameras set up and your own spy software in effect. There are really all sorts of things that you can do with the technology, as long as we can keep our political systems in check and our lives relatively uninterrupted.