Surveillance systems are poised only to grow. Cities across the world, and the United States is no exception, are implementing more stringent surveillance practises. There's a lot of funding to do this and the infrastructure bill funding this.

But then also, municipal and state appropriations are doing this. This points to the broader trend that's been identified by some historians as surveillance capitalism. Surveillance capitalism is an accelerating surveillance economy in which both private actors and state actors stand to benefit from growing surveillance of the general population.

In the case of the state, surveillance affords control, the ability to influence behaviour at scale.

In the case of the private sector that type of behavioural influence affords profit.