Editing Surveillance (section)

===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]].