1984 Surveillance Advantages

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Some people say that surveillance in our world is getting closer to the world of Big Brother. Although it may seem like our surveillance is for the worst, it is actually the exact opposite. It is helping our world more than you can imagine. Our surveillance will never lead us to the ways it took place in the book 1984. Surveillance will never get that extreme. The government believes surveillance is for our benefit. It benefits us for the best because it helps the government keep us as safe as possible. It is the government’s job to keep us safe, but they cannot do that if they do not know what is going on. The only reason people should feel worried about surveillance is if they are doing something wrong. A recent article in the …show more content…
They also believe that our government is taking similar actions like big brother in the book 1984. Many people believe our phones are helping the government come closer and closer to the world of Big Brother in the book 1984. In the article, that’s no phone. That’s my tracker; it gives many reasons why our phones are taking us closer to the world of big brother. Many people would compare the telescreen in the book 1984 to our smart phones that almost everyone owns. “Every year, private companies spend millions of dollars developing new services that track, store and share the words, movements and even the thoughts of their customers.” They believe this is exactly how Big Brother controls his people. Although it is similar to the telescreen in the book; it is completely different. It is different because Big Brother uses it to control his people while our government uses it to keep us safe. If our government did use our surveillance like it was used in 1984 then I believe there would be no way of stopping it. I believe the only thing people would be able to do is get rid of all our electronic devices. Even if we did get rid of all electronic devices, there would still be a great amount of different ways that our government could keep track of what we do. If our government did decide to use their surveillance system as it is used in big brother we would all be

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