surveillance is defined as the close monitoring of the actions of a specific
individual. The surveillance technology systems are devices that identify monitors and track the movements and data. Although this sounds like an invasion of personal privacy and loss of personal liberty It is important to understand that once digital traces are created and transmitted, they are out of our immediate control and generally end up in the hands of others, stored on servers that don’t easily forget. But not all digital traces are equal. The amount of control we have over a digital trace depends on how the trace was created and where it is stored. And as a future teacher I learned how important to handle the issue under the surveillance and data retention. Since the internet and the technology has the capacity to store and gather data, we humans sometimes tends to forget what are the sources, links, and websites we have been used that’s why surveillance and data retention is a need to practice.