Arkangel's Black Mirror

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The episode “Arkangel” of the series Black Mirror, shows an overprotective mother who places a chip in her young daughter’s brain. This chip allows her mother to see, on an iPad, her daughters sight, heart rate, bloodstream, hormone levels, location, and probably a lot more that was not shown. The mother thought she was doing the right thing so she would know where her daughter was at all times. Little did she know her daughter, Sarah, would have enough of it once she grew older.
Arkangel seemed like a good idea at first for both Sarah and her mother, until Sarah was old enough to understand what it is really doing. At the age of 15 Sarah told her mother to put it away and to not look at the iPad anymore. Sarah thought her mother actually

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