They tend to come hand in hand though given they ' re both about control of information . A loss of privacy can also prompt selfcensorship , once people feel they ' re being watched they may start to censor their own views and behaviour accordingly . You don ' t even need to do anything other than make them aware that somebody can see what they ' re doing at all times . Bentham ' s ' Panopticon ' is a good illustration of this . The concept of the design is to allow all pan inmates of an institution to be observed opticon by a single watchman without the inmates being able to tell whether or not they are being watched . Although it is physically impossible for the single watchman to observe all cells at once , the fact that the inmates cannot know when they are being watched means that all inmates must act as though they are watched at all times , effectively controlling their own behaviour constantly .