The famous author of 1984 known as George Orwell has written about how in Oceania, Big Brother has total control over anybody and everything. People did not know that this was going to be the future of our society today. Our government has full control over us, they know where we go during the day and know how long we stay there. They keep an eye on us during every minute of the day which causes our privacy to be violated. Throughout this essay you will be reading about how our privacy is being infringed by the government. In 1984, the party of Oceania controls everything, they have cameras approximately everywhere. Big Brother is the leader in Oceania who wants to keep the public in control, he wants people to obey him at all cost. As stated in the book, “Big Brother is watching you” (Orwell. Pg. 3). This quote shows that Big Brother has eyes on each person throughout the day, whatever we do he is watching us …show more content…
Our phones are more like trackers which detects where we are and allows the government to know what we are doing. These authors claim, “millions of cellphone users...swept up in government surveillance” (Maass and Rajagopalan, 2012). This shows that we do not have privacy in reality we are being spied on by the government no matter what. According to these authors, “cellular system...record the location of all phones” (Maass and Rajagopalan, 2012). This clearly states that our phones track our every move so we cannot avoid the fact that the government spies on us without our knowing. Government officials can easily hack into our devices without our acknowledge as well as search for what they are looking for without actually having our device in their hands. Even if we were to turn off our phones, they will continue to track our movements. They easily can figure out what type of person we are from the places we go to often due to our