Surveillance State Tourist Memento

A lot of countries, such as Britain, are establishing universal surveillance networks to catch criminals and terrorists. These networks involve CCTV cameras with wide coverage of public areas, number plate and face recognition, logging of mobile phone data, and importation of data from other databases (such as credit card purchases), for national security reasons.

Apart from catching terrorists and drug traffickers, this could also be used to provide a keepsake to tourists.

Imagine this: you're a tourist, arriving at an airport in Freedonia, a state with universal surveillance. You notice a sign saying "WELCOME TO FREEDONIA. YOU ARE NOW UNDER SURVEILLANCE. HAVE A NICE DAY." at the airport.

You stay in Freedonia for a few days, meeting business contacts, going to the local beaches, checking out the nightlife and so on. When leaving, you notice a memento booth at the airport. You go there, producing your passport. The clerk scans your details (and a biometric ID scan for security), takes your credit card and a few minutes later, hands you a CD-R souvenir of your stay in Freedonia.

When you arrive home, you insert the CD-R into your computer. On it you find a navigable map of everywhere you went in Freedonia, constructed from camera IDs and mobile phone triangulation records. Click on any point on the timeline, and you may get one of several candid snaps of yourself from the surveillance cameras. You also find details on the cars you rented, the taxis you rode in, hotel rooms you stayed in, and hypertextual histories of the tourist sites you visited. The record tapers off with your arrival at the airport and the memento booth.

Orwellian? Yes. Would people buy it? Given the popularity of T-shirts detailing fines for seemingly innocuous behaviours with tourists to Singapore, I imagine it could be successful.