"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
I believe the current civilized societies of the world are based upon and focused on one thing: fear. Technologies are being developed at an astounding rate to monitor and track the public at large all in the name of safety. The intent of these technologies is to seek out potential threats before they arise. In a time where information and ideas can cross the globe instantly, everyone is potentially a threat. Governments around the world are now currently attempting to implement ways to track, monitor, and analyze their citizens. The technology is already here. In the U.S., the government is already trying to pass laws and acts to make biometric based identification a reality without the general public being aware of the ramifications.
The questions that arise from this are many. How far into our private lives will this monitoring invade? Will it actually make us safer? What is the cost of implementing such technology? What will be done with all of the information collected? Who is watching the watchers?
In this series of work I explore our near-future society based on surveillance. It is my idea of what could happen when all private information is made available quickly and easily. I leave the viewer with an open ended question: “What happens when a system of this scale is abused, corrupted, and exploited?”
Security is only truly based on how long it can hold out from a focused attack, internally or externally.
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