It is possible for Jim, a none crew member, to use the surveillance system on the ship to watch Aurora while she exercises around the ship. There is practically no area that the cameras can't see, all the public areas, including dead ends are covered. There is no need for such a high level of surveillance on a ship where most people are sleeping most of the time. They only wake up in the last 4 months of the voltage, what are all those cameras watching? Robots?
When Jim wakes up and is guided to a classroom by his room’s AI, the AI in the classroom immediately recognizes him, meaning there must be some way the ship knows him in that room. Given this ship’s lack of use of facial recognition, the most plausible conclusion is the ship is using their ID to track Jim’s movement. The reason being an ID is required to enter rooms and use features like requesting food.
This ship is owned by a private company, and is not a government owned property, so I guess there are no police on the ship, at least not mentioned in the movie. This means all the cameras can only be used as a deterrent to prevent people from doing bad things. But if there are no law enforcement personnel on the ship, does the company have a justification to have so many cameras on the ship?[1] The usefulness of a deterrent in a limited space(the criminal can’t escape the ship as they will die in space) is questionable.
Jim first learned about Aurora through her own introduction video. I guess that they all made a recording of them introducing themself so that other people will get to know them, so it is understandable that Jim can access Aurora and other people’s videos. But will they understand the ship’s company is collecting information on what they do everyday after they wake up? The room they live in has an AI system that greets them once they wake up, and will guide them to their place on their schedule. The ship also just has too many weaknesses in its hardware that a physical person can break into if there is no one else stopping them.
