ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is to clarify that surveillance technology as an information and communication technology (ICT) has brought about significant transformations in the characteristics of capitalist nation states that are based on the rule of law. Modern society is an information-intensive society, but it also brought about the undermining of modernist preconditions of the state and individuals. With the development of surveillance based on ICT, not only privacy and civil liberty, but also democracy and identity politics, are in serious crisis. There are several questions to be addressed in this complicated process: Why does modern society result in the undermining of its positive values, such as privacy, civil liberty, democracy and freedom? What kind of transformation is taking place in these values? What are some effective alternatives to a surveillance-oriented society based on ICT?
