Function Creep in Surveillance Techniques

Surveillance practices have benefits. The surveillance gadgets are used for security purposes, making it easier for the security personnel to determine who, at what time and how an incident happened. However, surveillance practices have raised issues related to privacy. The government may use the surveillance gadgets to spy on the users. The information recorded by or on the various modes of surveillance can be compiled, disseminated at a high speed, and low cost. In the wrong hands, the information may be used in wrong ways that infringe on people’s security and privacy. Function Creep has greatly harmed the privacy and has resulted in segregation and isolation among different social classes. Why and how it happens, what its implications on the society are and what possible solutions can be used to control it has been discussed in this paper.