State Monitoring

Watch the video, Sign of the Times: Big Brother Watches (http://college.cengage.com/sociology/shared/videos/template29.html)… And Talks to You. And read the New York Times editorial, “Illegal Phone-Data Sweeps” (May 7, 2015)(https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/08/opinion/the-illegal-phone-data-sweeps.html?_r=2). Explore the sites in the Website List below. Use this Be Engaged forum as a "workspace" to discuss the following with your group, posting and replying as needed. Write two paragraphs answering the following questions: What do you think of the CCTV cameras that cover Middlesborough, England? Can you see something like this in your hometown? How does the use of cameras differ from the National Security Agency’s (NSA) use of secret phone surveillance—particularly with regard to the control of our everyday lives? Are these useful forms of enforcing public order? Why or why not?