Surveillance: The New Infrastructure of Fear, Influence, and Exploitation exposes how modern cities, workplaces, schools, and digital platforms have been quietly transformed into data-extraction environments governed by opaque public–private systems. Drawing on current reporting, global case studies, and emerging cyber security research, the book reveals how surveillance—from police ALPR networks to commercial data brokers—reshapes power, fuels political manipulation, enables extremism, and alters daily life. It offers a sweeping, accessible account of the threats facing democratic societies and a blueprint for reclaiming public control over technology that increasingly controls us.