Looking into the whole subject of how easy it is the be watched, followed, stalked and photographed but be totally aware. I came across the ponopiticon prison designs which were designed and introduced in 1785. Designed by English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham. They allow an observer to observe all the prisoners, without them being in the know that they are being watched. One architect described the building as the "sentiment of invisible omniscience". Jeremy Betham described the design as "A new mode of obtaining power of the mind over mind in a quantity hitherto without example." 
The design and idea is described as the birth and starting point of surveillance in society. The use of photographic surveillance began in 1913 with taking pictures of people in hidden disguised locations. The first use of cctv was in 1960 by the metropolitan police in Trafalgar square.
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