Persistent surveillance turned a secret visit into a televised target without detection.

Evidence

In view of this, Bentham laid down the principle that power should be visible and unverifiable. Visible: the inmate will constantly have before his eyes the tall outline of the central tower from which he is spied upon. Unverifiable: the inmate must never know whether he is being looked at at any one moment; but he must be sure that he may always be so. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 313 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

This is the meaning of the hand and glove. The closed loop and the tight fit are meant to create the conditions of no exit. Once, it was no exit from God’s total knowledge and power. Today, it is no exit from the others, from Big Other, and from the surveillance capitalists who decide. This condition of no exit creeps on slippered feet. First we do not even have to look away, and later we cannot. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1499 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Effective surveillance is visible yet permanently unverifiable — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 313; Surveillance targets identity as intention and practice, not appearance — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 383; Targeted surveillance became undeniable only after Snowden exposed secret intelligence-industry data partnerships (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Effective surveillance is visible yet permanently unverifiable #qualifies (0.95) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 313
• Surveillance targets identity as intention and practice, not appearance #complicates (0.85) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 383
• Targeted surveillance became undeniable only after Snowden exposed secret intelligence-industry data partnerships #complicates (0.85)
• Surveillance replaces God’s total knowledge as an inescapable observer #complicates (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1499
• Surveillance erodes interpersonal trust by removing the right to act without it #complicates (0.80) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 503
• Surveillance architecture embeds a private communication channel for the watched #complicates (0.75) — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 251
• Surveillance capitalists used unilateral declarations to take without asking. #complicates (0.70) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 606