Exam 8: Crime and the Surveillance Culture

In academic discussions of surveillance, however, the dominant metaphor has been that of the synopticon.

The use of fingerprinting has expanded to include privileged cardholders, frequent flyers, club members, library users, and children.

______ was known as the first and now surpassed wave of electronic visual surveillance.

A smart phone has more computing power than the machines used by NASA in ______ to place two astronauts on the moon.

Among Snowden's revelations were that the NSA, together with the British Intelligence Agency, collected the phone records of millions of citizens, accessed and collected data from Google and Facebook accounts via a program called ______.

According to the authors, a great deal of surveillance is directed toward doing all of the following except:

Snowden's fate remains uncertain but, while the U.S. Government have branded him a traitor and criminal, his alter-ego as patriot and hero.

For Foucault, panoptic surveillance targets the soul.

ALPR units affixed to police patrol cars automatically geocode each vehicle a specific location, thereby creating a massive searchable database of vehicle locations.

There exists software capable of sifting through any written communication and spotting when the writer is lying or confused about the facts.

CCTV systems that operate in public spaces, such as streets, are monitored continuously.

The Panopticon has been a useful metaphor for the notion of surveillance as social control and has given rise to all of the following except:

Which of the following films uses technology to predict crime?

Which of the following have been dubbed the "surveillant assemblage"?

The ______ were a period of rapid expansion for CCTV.

What did the USA PATRIOT Act do?

What is the panopticon's purpose? Was the design ever realized? Do you believe that the panopticon would be effective for social institutions? Why or why not?

In the landmark 5-4 Supreme Court ruling in Maryland v. King, the legality of DNA collection prior to conviction was upheld.

DNA cannot be cloned.

Set in a police state, circa 2054, Minority Report seamlessly combines current allegiances to proactive "pre-crime" strategies with an equally contemporary faith in "new age" prescience to raise questions about the ethics of taking predictions as "facts." Do you believe that thinking about criminal acts is the same as committing them? What civil liberties issues can arise from this?