The Panopticon functions as a kind of laboratory of power. Thanks to its mechanisms of observation, it gains in efficiency and in the ability to penetrate into men’s behaviour; knowledge follows the advances of power, discovering new object of knowledge over all the surfaces on which power is exercised. —Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish Privacy allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be. —Edward Snowdon I would like to offer a disclaimer to this article. I am aware that most people living in the United Kingdom are extremely protective of the NHS and their country’s social services. This article is written in the spirit of critique due to the abuses mentioned herein...
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