Comint represents the effort to gain access to, intercept and process every important modern form of communication, in every significant sphere, and … - David Lyon

The panopticon produces subjects with desires to improve their inner lives. In contrast the superpanopticon constitutes objects, individuals with dispersed identities, who may remain unaware of how those identities are construed by the computer. We are once again back with disappearing bodies.

What a contrast with the lives of ordinary people at the start of twenty-first century! Today, everyday life is constantly monitored.

Surveillance today is a means of sorting and classifying populations and not just of invading personal space or violating the privacy of individuals. In postmodernizing contexts surveillance is an increasingly powerful means of reinforcing social divisions, as the superpanoptic sort relentlessly screens, monitors and classifies to determine eligibility and access, to include and to exclude.