Editing Surveillance (section)

==Popular culture==
===In literature===
* [[George Orwell]]'s novel ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'' portrays a fictional [[totalitarian]] surveillance society with a very simple [[mass surveillance]] system consisting of human operatives, informants, and two-way "telescreens" in people's homes. Because of the impact of this book, mass-surveillance technologies are commonly called "Orwellian" when considered problematic.
* The book ''[[The Handmaid's Tale]]'', as well as a film and TV series based on it, portray a totalitarian Christian [[theocracy]] where all citizens are kept under constant surveillance.
* In the book ''[[The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo]]'', [[Lisbeth Salander]] uses computers to get information on people, as well as other standard surveillance methods, as a freelancer.
* ''[[V for Vendetta]],'' a British [[graphic novel]] written by [[Alan Moore]]
* [[Dave Eggers|David Egger's]] novel ''[[The Circle (Eggers novel)|The Circle]]'' exhibits a world where a single company called "The Circle" produces all of the latest and highest quality technologies from computers and smartphones, to surveillance cameras known as "See-Change cameras". This company became associated with politics when it started a movement where politicians went "transparent" by wearing See-Change cameras to prevent the public from keeping secrets about their daily work activity. In this society, sharing personal information and experiences becomes mandatory because The Circle believes everyone should have access to all information freely. However, as Eggers illustrates, this takes a toll on the individuals and disrupts power between governments and private companies. The Circle presents extreme ideologies surrounding mandatory surveillance. Eamon Bailey, one of the Wise Men, or founders of The Circle, believes that possessing the tools to access information about anything or anyone, should be a human right given to all of the world's citizens.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=The Circle|last=Eggers|first=David|publisher=Alfred A. Knopf, McSweeney's Books|year=2013|isbn=978-0-385-35139-3|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/circle00dave/page/288 288], 290–291, 486|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/circle00dave}}</ref> By eliminating all secrets, any behaviour that has been deemed shameful will either become normalized or no longer considered shocking. Negative actions will eventually be eradicated from society altogether, through the fear of being exposed to other citizens<ref name=":0" /> This would be achieved partly by everyone going transparent, which Bailey highly supports. However, none of the Wise Men ever became transparent themselves. One primary goal of The Circle is to have all of the world's information filtered through The Circle, a process they call "Completion".<ref name=":0" /> A single, private company would then have full access and control over all information and privacy of individuals and governments. Ty Gospodinov, the first founder of The Circle, has significant concerns about the completion of the circle. He warns that this step would give The Circle too much power and control, quickly leading to [[totalitarianism]].

===In music===
* The [[Dead Kennedys]]' song "I Am The Owl" is about government surveillance and [[Social engineering (security)|social engineering]] of political groups.
* The [[Vienna Teng]] song "Hymn of Acxiom" is about corporate data collection and surveillance.

===Onscreen===
{{Main|List of films featuring surveillance}}

* The film ''[[Gattaca]]'' portrays a society that uses [[biometric]] surveillance to distinguish between people who are genetically engineered "superior" humans and genetically natural "inferior" humans.
* In the movie ''[[Minority Report (film)|Minority Report]]'', the police and government intelligence agencies use [[micro aerial vehicles]] in [[SWAT]] operations and for surveillance purposes.
* [[HBO]]'s crime-drama series ''[[The Sopranos]]'' regularly portrays the FBI's surveillance of the [[DiMeo Crime Family]]. Audio devices they use include "[[Covert listening device|bugs]]" placed in strategic locations (e.g., in "[[I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano]]" and "[[Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood]]") and hidden microphones worn by operatives (e.g., in "[[Rat Pack (The Sopranos)|Rat Pack]]") and informants (e.g., in "[[Funhouse (The Sopranos)|Funhouse]]", "[[Proshai, Livushka]]" and "[[Members Only (The Sopranos)|Members Only]]"). Visual devices include [[hidden cameras|hidden still cameras]] (e.g., in "[[Pax Soprana]]") and video cameras (e.g., in "[[Long Term Parking]]").
* The movie ''[[THX-1138]]'' portrays a society wherein people are drugged with sedatives and antidepressants, and have surveillance cameras watching them everywhere they go.
* The movie ''[[The Lives of Others]]'' portrays the monitoring of [[East Berlin]] by agents of the [[Stasi]], the [[East Germany|GDR]]'s secret police.
* The movie ''[[The Conversation]]'' portrays many methods of [[Eavesdropping|audio surveillance]].
* The movie ''[[V for Vendetta (film)|V for Vendetta]]'', a 2005 [[List of dystopian films|dystopian]] [[Political thriller|political thriller film]] directed by [[James McTeigue]] and written by [[the Wachowskis]], is about British government trying to brainwash people by media, obtain their support by fearmongering, monitor them by mass surveillance devices, and suppress or kill any political or social objection.
* The movie ''[[Enemy of the State (film)|Enemy of the State]]'' a 1998 American [[Action film|action]]-[[thriller film]] directed by [[Tony Scott]] is about using U.S. citizens' data to search their background and surveillance devices to capture everyone that is identified as "enemy".
*The British TV series ''[[The Capture (TV series)|The Capture]]'' explores the potential for video surveillance to be manipulated in order to support a conviction to pursue a political agenda.