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Mass surveillance in popular culture

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457:, the 2008 summer blockbuster delved into whether the public security against the Joker's actions warranted Batman's mass scale spying on Gotham City's citizens using cell phone technology. Lucius Fox, Morgan Freeman's character, threatened to quit Wayne Enterprises over Batman's private surveillance of Gotham claiming that no one man should possess such power. However the hero of the movie, Batman, claimed that mass surveillance of citizens was vital to fight "terrorism". Batman came to Lucius opinion at the end of the film, when he destroyed the surveillance system. 102: 532:, which is either a target or a perpetrator. The NSA has been trying to access the Machine but the software is so well encrypted that no operating system can crack it. Harold Finch is convinced that the government would abuse the Machine if they can access it, and he vows to make sure that no one else gets hold of the Machine. In one episode, an employee of the NSA discovered the existence of the Machine and a black ops unit is ordered to kill him. 1003: 22: 552:". The society were under heavy surveillance by numbers of "Accessory" androids. And the criminals were forced to hard labors of finding resources in the outside world, and then contribute to their government to exchange for few years amnesty or gain access to several human rights. In the game, the slogan "We gaze at you" is the parody of "Big Brother is watching you" in 572:
control systems to gather information on and resources from any individual he wishes, to evade law enforcement, to stop crimes before or as they happen, to commit crimes himself if needed, and to manipulate various objects and function of the infrastructure to his advantage. He also discovers that
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depicting life in an underground dystopia where all human activities are monitored centrally at all times. A high level of control is exerted upon the populace through ever-present faceless, android police officers and mandatory, regulated use of special drugs to suppress emotion, including sexual
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physical/digital communication. It does so automatically, without any human interventions (only seven people in the world are aware of its existence). The Machine has the purpose of preventing terrorist attacks, but it sees crimes involving ordinary citizens. It provides the authorities with the
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TV series that aired from September 2011 to June 2016 that depicts a machine which spies on each citizen of the United States. The Machine makes extensive use of surveillance cameras, telephone conversations, internet usage, public records, satellite-driven technology and virtually any mean of
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purposes. On several occasions, these systems are also used against Aiden to send law enforcement or criminal enforcers after him in efforts to apprehend or kill him. The game also demonstrates the possibility of taking control of an entire city through unauthorized access and misuse of an
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media baron, Elliot Carver, whose newspapers print false stories that are related to Carver's secret agenda. A clear sign of his vanity and a reference to Big Brother, much of Carver's headquarters in Hamburg is decorated with vast, imposing banners, with Carver's face glaring
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is a PSVita action role-playing game which set in the dystopian future. Most of the human population were sentenced 1,000,000 years of imprisonment since they were born. They were dwelling inside the enclosed metropolitan cities named
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is a science-fiction book that praises mass surveillance, under the condition that it is available to everyone. It shows a world in which a total lack of privacy results in a decrease in corruption and
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is an action-adventure video game released for PC and for seventh- and eighth-generation video game consoles. In the game, the protagonist Aiden Pearce is a master thief, hacker, and self-appointed
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monitoring of near-future Britain, and the Government's use of race-specific remote drugs which could be triggered to affect one population, but not the other.
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the engineers of these integrated systems are also in the process of establishing a program that can predict human behavior and thus be used for mass
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after a major terrorist attack; the DHS uses technologies such as RFIDs and surveillance cameras to create a totalitarian system of control.
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who watches over the novel's characters is now used to describe any form of spying on or interfering with the public, such as CCTV cameras.
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is a common theme. There are numerous novels, nonfiction books, films, TV shows, and video games, all taking a critical view of
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thoroughly examines the use of RFID chips, nanotechnology, military technology, science, and surveillance.
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is generally taken as being one of the paradigmatic works on theories of surveillance and discipline
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related to a bill in Congress that would expand the federal government's surveillance powers.
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whose dwellers and visitors are constantly being of surveilled by a variety of technologies
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Vijay K. Bhatia; Christoph A. Hafner; Lindsay Miller & Anne Wagner (January 2012).
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about a society that arrests people for crimes they have yet to commit (made into a
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Welcome to the Machine: Science, Surveillance, and the Culture of Control
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Welcome to the Machine: Science, Surveillance and the Culture of Control
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Transparency, Power, and Control: Perspectives on Legal Communication
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depicting ordering pizza by phone in a Total Surveillance Society.
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who is able to hack into the city-wide mass surveillance and
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desire. The film was first made as a student project in the
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leaking classified information on ongoing mass surveillance
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depicting an oppressive total information awareness society
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Index

excessive
irrelevant
improve the article
less pertinent examples
surveillance
Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Lord of the Rings
The Dark Knight

Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
totalitarian state
Big Brother'
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
Little Brother
Cory Doctorow
San Francisco
The Minority Report
Philip K. Dick
movie
A Scanner Darkly
Philip K. Dick
Oath of Fealty
Larry Niven
Jerry Pournelle
arcology
V for Vendetta

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