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.

DEFINE: Defines a surveillance society as reaching full form only through internalized self-surveillance, not just state monitoring.

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