This article presents a theoretical reflection on surveillance as a guarantor of social order. It states that the new surveillance assembly that started with the launch of the Internet tends towards absolute control of life through direct and violent coercion, or entertainment and fun. It deals with three significant surveillance devices, namely, panoptic as a meeting point between the disciplinary society we no longer are and the surveillance society we are becoming; synoptic or the monitoring and surveillance of private, intimate and emotional life; and predictive analytics or the preference for finding correlations among millions of available everyday data that intends, if not to explain the cause of phenomena, to look for new forms of c...