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[Star Trek] Why is there such a lack of surveillance in the future?

I don't mean big brother type of surveillance on every street corner, but like on star fleet vessels and stations. Wouldn't a few banks of security cameras solve a lot of issues.

Example in DS9 (I'm in the early seasons on my first watch so if this Is fixed addressed later sorry) there's an episode that involves a bombing on the station and other various incidents.

But also in Voyager on two separate incidents a camera would have led to a quicker conclusion to the incident. (In this case a murder and a case of mutiny with the Kazon)
gpt
The Federation has such lofty ideals you might guess they consider people to be free from undo surveillance even in Starfleet. In TNG: “The Neutral Zone” we see they won’t even try to lock out civilians from being annoying on the ship communications. It’s also pretty easy for anyone to wander onto the bridge. They could just be shockingly idealistic.



There could also be an element of “it could be used against us” in avoiding the technology. As in, if ship systems are hijacked or infiltrated in espionage, then the ability for crew to be tracked and recorded anywhere is given to a hostile power.