Surveillance society embedded into the everyday

I came across this image while searching the internet, and I think it brings up some interesting issues in relation to how consumer goods, such as mobile phones, are embedded with surveillance technology, where you can be constantly tracked. However contrary to the idea of the state 'watching over you', you, the user, invite people to 'watch over you', to find out where you are and what you are doing. And this relates back to my earlier quote from Feury: ' Have all these new technologies (internet, mobile phones and so on), that have become such an integral part of our daily habits in terms of communication, working life, and socializing , created the intrusion of regulation? ... The more our lives and memories become translated into data, the longer the power remains unnoticed, and the more ingrained its government becomes.''




Will be interesting to think about in relation to a project, and how surveillance has made us subjected to another, almost unnoticed, our own consumption of new technology invites these new forms of gaze, even if that subjection is our friends. It is also interesting how mobile phones, and their interfaces encourage you to document your daily lives, through my-post-it note apps, social networking apps, photo file folders, memos, pdf readers and so on. And in particular the photo bellow shows how you (voluntarily) can be tracked from your mobile phone by friends, and vice-versa - but who knows who else uses this data.