Both in fiction and in everyday life, the ability to record everything that is done to be able to vouch for what happened is by no means a remote possibility. With the help of highly sophisticated systems, the camera penetrates our social practices more and more. And it records and stores them so that they can be used in the future. The subtlety of the mechanism is such that we contribute to it through the use we make of this very technology, we continually record, take photographs and save. In this sense, the concept of video-surveillance constitutes a control device by the State to monitor the ways that its population has of doing things.


It is also true that the use and implementation of video-surveillance systems in today's society appears to be allowed in terms of ensuring people's safety as it drags veracity out of the events and enables reality to be reconstructed. But, at the same time, another look at it may reveal to us that these systems may respond perfectly to a structure aimed at the possibility of establishing a mechanism to control its inhabitants.