6 Aug 2008

the advantages of a 'surveillance society' far outweigh the drawbacks

Introduction
Use technology to control crime has been a controversial topic for many years, like CCTV and

number plate recognition, fingerprints, DNA profiling etc. It seems that the human beings fight
with the crime since they were born. With the increasing number of crime, people have been
realising the importance of such technology in fighting against crime. Now the UK is one of the
most developed country owning almost all such kinds of technology to catch up with the criminals
at a crime scene.
It is often argued that such kinds of technology have had a negative effect on human beings'

privacy. "It all seems like an infringement of our privacy" said a representative of the American
Right to Privacy League. However, this essay will argue that these kinds of technology has had a
largely beneficial impact on cracking criminal cases.
The first part of the essay will examine the recent crime scene in the UK and the ways they

solved these problems. Then it is going to look at some of the negative influence about using the
technology against crime and the reason why this situation still exits. The third part of this essay
will go on to explain the numerous benefits which these kinds of technology have brought to the
human beings and analyse its positive effects.

The first paragraph
Although there are a number of arguments that claim over-using the technology tools to fight with crime is a kind of infringement in some ways. Reducing

using these kinds of technology will make the entire society be in lack of safe. This is clearly
exemplified by crimes happened in places where have no technology for preventing the criminals.
The policemen will find it is quite difficult to trace back what was happening, there is no CCTV,
no fingerprint, or even though no biometric and facial recognition etc. Only could one clue be used
is witness, which could take much more time to settle such a crime. Furthermore, this will
promote the local people into a dangerous situation, in another word, the native people could be
worried a lot because nobody knows who will be attacked next time.

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