Surveillance Technology: Keeping Us Safe or an Invasion of Privacy?

 What do you think about surveillance technology? How do you feel about CCTV cameras, facial recognition technology, microchips in products which feed information back to producers and number plate recognition? What are the benefits of these various kinds of technology and what are their dangers?


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