Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, Ph.D., recently wrote an essay on the amount of surveillance images and data that we are a part of everyday. The essay basically asks the question, when does a public need for information cross a line into invasion of privacy?

The essay is very interesting on multiple levels and makes you think about the way that government and law enforcement are heading toward increased surveillance (for example, the surveillance systems being implemented in Chicago and New Orleans), and how that might affect individual citizens. On the one hand, I want to make sure that my neighborhood and family are safe, but on the other hand, I don’t want a camera pointed at my living room window.

Go read the article here, and leave your thoughts in the comments section.

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