As the keyword article suggests surveillance and technology are deeply intertwined. As more aspects our our everyday lives become digitized, opportunities for surveillance through these means increase. On example of this is through social media. Social media encourages users to do things like share their location through geotags, geofilters and things like “Snap Map”, a page on the snap map app which users to see the locations of all of their friends. Social Media has digitized many social interactions leaving them vulnerable to surveillance in a way previously unimaginable. Without a specific tracking device it would be hard to know the exact location of a given person in the past. These days almost everyone carries a tracking device with them in the form of a cell phone. Now even those without the resources of a powerful government can survey those around them to a much greater extent. Another example that comes to mind here is Life360; a location tracking app popular with parents. In the past once a child left the house it might be hard to know exactly where they went, now parents, like my own, can track their child’s every movement even from hundreds of miles away.
