A surveillance society only becomes complete when those surveilled begin to self-surveil.

Evidence

In a surveillance society, it is not just the state and private citizens who surveil. It is only complete when those surveilled begin to self-surveil. To clarify, not everyone has an equal chance of being surveilled. The state designates which bodies require vigilant monitoring, and a surveillance society becomes oppressive when it unfairly monitors and watches particular groups of people based on their race, ethnicity, religion, and gender, resulting in a loss of privacy and consequently one’s civil liberties. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 347

A surveillance society thrives when individual privacy is sacrificed for national security. In a surveillance society, it is not just the state and private citizens who surveil. It is only complete when those surveilled begin to self-surveil. To clarify, not everyone has an equal chance of being surveilled. The state designates which bodies require vigilant monitoring, and a surveillance society becomes oppressive when it unfairly monitors and watches particular groups of people based on their race, ethnicity, religion, and gender, resulting in a loss of privacy and consequently one’s civil liberties. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 349

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines what makes surveillance total — the internalization into self-surveillance — which is the chapter’s core mechanism.
• XREF: Directly extends the Foucault Panopticon quote immediately following; connects to the reader’s broader surveillance map. — connects to: Complete surveillance requires those watched to begin monitoring themselves.; Control societies replace external surveillance with self-policing but require the subject’s complicity. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 48
• SEED: The self-surveillance completion criterion could anchor an essay on how coercion becomes invisible when subjects internalize the watch.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 347; Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 349