Locative Dystopia

'The mobile phone puts the Panoptic eye in your pocket and places the body within the circuits of dataveillance, not only extending the reach of surveillance but also changing its form. With the arrival of Location-Based Services control mechanisms are marketed as consumer products, such as services that enable parents to track the movements of their children 24 hours per day, without consent if the child is under fifteen, even if with often unpredictable results (3). These - like the use of picture phones and the rise of 'cellphone vigilantes' (Mitchell) - highlight the arrival of lateral or 'synaptic' surveillance, in which the top-down model of State-sponsored surveillance is displaced by a situation in which contents are generated within and circulate across horizontal networks, and it is increasingly difficult to distinguish the subjects of surveillance from its agents.'

And this quote in particular in relation to all the images and videos I have been encountering mobile phones is particularly interesting in regard to consumption, pleasure and surveillance (Particularly the LG diagram):

[The control society... 'Here control is seen less a means of controlling deviancy, crime or terrorism, more a way of managing consumption and the smooth flow of goods and desires, producing not docile subjects so much as better consumers'....]  'This too is illustrated by Location-Based Services, where control mechanisms are transformed into consumer products, deployed for cell based marketing or remodelled as entertainment and a source of pleasure (4). As with the spectacular success of Big Brother, surveillance and control here become cultural entities in their own right, in which the locative capacity itself is embraced and consumed like any other service, as a form of culture or leisure.'

Source: http://www.drewhemment.com/2004/locative_dystopia_2.html