On the other hand, surveillance systems developed historically hand in hand with democratic governments and with rights of the citizenship. We cannot say that is an “unambiguous or unmitigated evil” (p. 162) and we cannot insist that this is an unquestionable or “inevitable” (p. 162) negative, as there are different type of observations, as well as having restrictive consequences for the life of human society.

2. Security as an essential part of our lives

In the 20th century a new term, “societal security” was coined. As a result of globalization, these security policy measures are no longer confined to the local level, but they are global and require close cooperation between nations. Global issues threaten society like terrorism, cultural and religious conflicts, global warming and so on. For these global issues global terms are needed. After the terror attack on 11th September, in 2001, it has become evident to the world, including the electorate and to the government, that the security policy measures that have been applied in the past, will not be enough to overcome the terrorists. It seemed clearly that those intelligence forms and national security techniques are not enough to stop the outrage. As a result of events and the following fear, serious measures, steps and bills were adopted by both the society and the political leadership, which has never happened before. Since the attacks have happened, surveillance became more important and it has become a fundamental tool in the fight against terrorism with new policies and technologies. These technologies and policies allowed the military and the police operatives to monitor suspect populations (Haggerty & Ericson, 2006).
After George Orwell published the novel 1984, we started to compare this phenomenon, to a huge superpower, which observes every step of our life and made us paranoid. Most of the people associate the word ‘surveillance’ with something negative but it has a lot of positive effects which we all enjoy.

Security is a prerequisite of enforcing other values and rights. Physical security is of prime importance because it is not possible to enforce another right if the individual is not safe, that is, if something happens to him, for example he is being attacked, beaten, raped, or robbed (Shue, 1996). So, on this basis, we can say that physical security is not just an inalienable right of everyone, but a must and a priority for everyone. As men