The technological advancement creates the necessity to control the progress of the awareness of functioning, usage and commitment, to technological development, within certain social areas. The article presents the public opinion research on the perception of new technologies, in the context of surveillance. Attention is paid to the public awareness of the functioning of technological solutions, and problems related to the adaptation of devices. The increasing technological domination becomes the standard of everyday life, and the society faces a difficult challenge of confronting modernity and universality.