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Caren Myers Morrison

2015

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Dr. Panopticon, Or How I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love The Drone, Caren Morrison Nov 2015

Dr. Panopticon, Or How I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love The Drone, Caren Morrison

Caren Myers Morrison

Of all the ways the government has to watch us, unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly known as drones, best capture the visceral fear of the all-seeing surveillance state. Because drones are becoming increasingly tiny, inexpensive, and powerful, they could enable a new species of universal surveillance, turning our cities into a modern version of Bentham’s panopticon. But this essay, written for the criminal justice symposium issue of the JCRED, is not about the alarming consequences of surveillance technology. Instead, it seeks to explore whether there is anything useful to be learned from the possibility of continuous mass surveillance. Not just useful …