Surveillance societies depend on citizens policing themselves. [causal]
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.
DEFINE: Clarifies what makes a surveillance society 'complete' — self-surveillance, not just state monitoring.
Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, loc. 347