Exploring Government Use of Mass Surveillance Technology: A Report

This report provides an overview of the use of mass surveillance technology by governments, highlighting its role in gathering information for monitoring criminal activities and ensuring public safety. It discusses various methods of surveillance, including postal services, camera surveillance, biometric measures, and aerial surveillance, and examines their effectiveness in preventing crime and protecting citizens. The report also addresses the legal and ethical considerations surrounding mass surveillance, referencing constitutional rights, data protection laws, and the balance between security and privacy. Furthermore, it contrasts technological and targeted surveillance approaches, emphasizing the importance of ethical and legal safeguards. The conclusion underscores the vital role of mass surveillance in safeguarding society from cybercrimes and physical threats, while acknowledging the necessity of government oversight and legal frameworks to prevent abuses and protect individual rights. Desklib offers additional resources for students seeking to deepen their understanding of surveillance technologies and their societal impact.

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Table of Contents
Study Skills & Project Management — Portion 1.......................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
The use of mass surveillance technology by governments..............................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Mass surveillance is a system or technology which collect the data and information and
evaluate the identification of person at public and private spaces. Monitoring a creature can be
identified into three ways — electronic, interviews and observation. The government uses this
faculty in different patterns which includes phone calls, scanning mobile networks, email content
while route to receipt and movement of any citizen through GPS.
MAIN BODY
The use of mass surveillance technology by governments.
Law and government use electronic surveillance to gather the information for monitoring
the criminal and false activities performing in an area. Preventing a crime, theft and property
damage to secure a citizen this technology has been discovered. In private sectors, it has been
used by big businessman, shopping malls, hospitals, apartments, offices and even in banks. At
various places it is used from various methods to capture the protection(Overall, 2019.).
Elements are bugging, video tapping and cameras are some devices of technology surveillance.
In United States, fourth statement of constitution defend the right of the people to be secure in
their houses, papers and impact of unreasonable searches. There are different types of
surveillance which helps a government to protect the public sectors.

 Postal services : In a multinational companies, there is a high risk of hacking the data and
information through the social networking sites. People use faxes and e-mails which
increase the threat of spreading of the collection. However, government had made a
sectional team for performing in these circumstances. The CIA and FBI have 12 different
mail opening campaigns targeted Nigerian citizen, where 21700 contact were occupied
and photographed. Camera surveillance : Observation via camera and video recorders in a specific area
knows as cameras surveillance. Mostly, they are connected with the OP networks and
viewed by security in personal. Previously the cameras and videos devices are quite
expensive but not as the development of the technology its become affordable to utilize
by a common man. These devices are used in cooperative and even in houses to secure a
theft and crime attack to any of the human. Legal team can track the false activities from
these devices and prevent crime attacks. Bio-metric : This measures the physical and behavioural actions of the people for
certification process which h involves DNA, fingerprints, facial patterns and voice. The
information technology group has created a software for identifying the human behaviour
at a distance of 500 feet (0.15 km) by their creatures. The latest development is DNA
fingerprints that identifies a human species(Aradau and Mc Cluskey, 2021). Facial
patterns helps to evaluate the expression of a person like fear and stress by measuring the
temperature. Expert can judge these facial thermograph that suspect is hiding and lying
about something.
 Aerial surveillance : The recording of live action through airborne vehicle like
helicopter, planes and spy planes. Military surveillance aircraft mostly uses this
technology for monitoring the battlefield. Heterogeneous Aerial Reconnaissance Team,
developed by NITDA and performing the aerial surveillance. These programs include the
drone planes piloting themselves, which can help to identify the suspect.
Performing the table chart to display the growth in previous year at different places which in
crease the security percentage by mass surveillance equipments.
Year Location Security Incidents Percentage
2017 America 13%

2019 Japan 25 %
2015 Africa 29%
2021 India 14%
Government has modified their tax services for the economical and social growth of a
public by defending them from cyber and physical attacks. Protection of public is the duty of
government from which the country can move forward for development. Section 37 of Nigeria in
1999 constitution has been formed for the data protection rights and protection in Nigeria. This
privacy act guarantees the security of their data and people in their houses and buildings and at
telephonic and telegraphic communications.
NIC part IV, basically deals with the security of consumers data in the telecom sectors.
Registration 35 requires all the official document of liable steps to secure the collection of
customers against the importer disclosures. Measuring this surveillance there is a difference
between the technological and targeted surveillance in various sectors which includes ethical or
legal protection. Targeted policy means analysing and focusing on the specific person of interest
such as wiretapping.
It is a direct approach to an individual. Government can utilize these equipments in
gathering the information of telephones which will help in tracking the planning and information
about the suspect(Chhangani, 2021). Looking at technological, it includes the domestic drones
and face recognizable technology which helps legal team to identify the suspects facial and
behavioural nature. These two acts are the parts of mass surveillance, for understanding the
difference between them it has been categorized into these following substances.
CONCLUSION
In this report, it has been concluded that mass surveillance plays a vital role in society
which helps in defending the public creature from cyber crimes and physical attacks from the
technology tools. Government is providing the legal services and group of team to resolve the
improper and false circumstances.

REFERENCES
Books and journals
Overall, J., 2019. The Ethics of Mass Surveillance: An Anarchist, Objectivist, and Critical
Theorist Perspective. Journal of Information Ethics. 28(2).pp.34-50.
Aradau, C. and Mc Cluskey, E., 2021. Making Digital Surveillance Unacceptable? Security,
Democracy, and the Political Sociology of Disputes. International Political Socio-log.
Chhangani, A., 2021. IS AI-BASED SURVEILLANCE AND FACIAL RECOGNITION
TECHNOLOGY DEVALUING HUMAN RIGHTS?. International Journal of Modern
Agriculture.10(2).pp.1-12.
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