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You are caught
TRUE or
FALSE?
on camera 300

times a day Surveillance cameras are

mainly used for crime
prevention, travel issues,
and crowd control.
Can you really be caught on camera so
many times? This number came from a

book called The Maximum Surveillance
Society, published in 1999. The true

number of times depends on your
location. Off the beaten track, you may
never be seen, but in the bright lights

of the big city, you can’t be camera shy!

It is estimated there are up to 30 million surveillance
cameras in use in the United States. Exact numbers
are difficult to gauge as surveillance camera usage
is constantly increasing and many cameras are
privately owned. Critics complain that this creates a
“Big Brother” state in which people have no privacy.

ON YOUR STREET
Google Street View and
Google Earth are applications
that map the world and the
streets where people live.
Special cars with street-view
cameras on top travel
around taking 360-degree
pictures of neighborhoods.

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