Monitoring pressure
The one who is being watched suffers from observation pressure . His freedom and lightheartedness are impaired. A monitoring pressure is already given to be if the person believes monitored or it at least can not rule and thus feels impaired in its freedom and light-heartedness.
stalking
Monitoring by private individuals is known as stalking . The § 238 of the Criminal Code , this form of adjustment and monitoring illegal in Germany.
Fight against crime
Surveillance pressure has not proven its worth as a means of fighting crime . Here, pressure to observe - whether through direct surveillance or remote video surveillance - only leads to a shift of crime to less-monitored areas.
Video surveillance
In video surveillance, there is a previously unusual, asymmetrical relationship between observer and observed, because the observed cannot see the observer. Because of this, they do not know whether they are actually being watched. It is also usually unclear whether the data from the video surveillance is recorded, who is viewing these recordings when and when they are deleted again.
successes
Monitoring pressure promotes retreat into private life and enforces behavior that conforms to standards. People can be inhibited in the free development of their personality . For example, meetings in monitored, public places or the like can be avoided if the person could be registered and possibly criticized by third parties for their participation. The theoretical possibility that strangers have access to their own communication channels, e.g. B. in the form of an event-independent Internet monitoring , is usually sufficient to change the communication behavior, even unconsciously ("scissors in the head").
Health and social consequences
The majority of those affected suffer from vegetative symptoms , such as restlessness ( fearfulness ), headaches, anxiety symptoms , sleep disorders and stomach problems and the resulting mental and physical exhaustion. Many are irritated quickly and then react aggressively, depending on the situation, for no reason. A significant number of the victims suffer from depressive moods, some of them from depression .
Especially in victims who are ambushed or who are physically threatened and persecuted, patterns of behavior that tend to be pathogenic , such as avoidance behavior , isolation (isolation) or control behavior, quickly become apparent . Just as the perpetrator is fixated on his victim, the victim is also fixated on the monitor by the situation, which is perceived as annoying and an unpredictable threat.
After a long and intensive persecution, a post- traumatic stress disorder can occur under certain circumstances , as it can occur in comparison with soldiers after inhuman war experiences that were not psychologically able to process them.
Monitoring pressure and monitoring state
The intensity of observation and surveillance pressure can also be a social indicator of the existence and social intensity of a surveillance and prevention state . The latter often argues that people who are not guilty of anything have nothing to fear, and thus generally suspects opponents of surveillance, like all other citizens, of having committed a criminal offense. See also : Danger prevention and presumption of innocence in danger prevention law .
See also
- General personal rights
- Automatic license plate recognition
- Email monitoring
- echelon
- Labeling approach
- face recognition
- Big bugging
- Online search
- Panoptism (Foucault)
- Post privacy
- Right of self-determination
- Telecommunications Surveillance Ordinance
- Data retention
Web links
- Surveillance Printing Wiki
- Telepolis: Better to attract attention; No more excuses against encryption
- Police drone: the flying eye
- 23 C3 : Surveillance Pressure - Some Experiments (MPEG-4 video; 227.3 MB). (Mp3 podcast; 62.1 MB) . December 29, 2006, accessed January 5, 2009.
- YouTube channel: "Ueberwachungsdruck" .
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the Federal Criminal Police Office: Information on the Central Office for Independent Research in Data Networks (ZaRD) ( Memento of the original from August 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . November 2008.
