Ordinarily no one should want to be willing to give up their personal privacy for the greater good of society. Once they give they that up, will they ever be able to get them back will they only give certain parts back. That's the problem it’s so many variables to giving up privacy just for the greater good. One methods often used by the government to collect information about, and spy on the general public are packet sniffers programs. “Essentially a packet sniffer is a program that can see all of the information passing over the network it is connected to” (Tyson, 81). The government can set up packet sniffer on an isolated IP address to capture packets from a particular location.
In 1984 George Orwell describes how surveillance technology used by “Big Brother”. 1984's powerful Party is its ability to control its citizens and Oceanians live in …show more content…
In Chapter 1, Page 3, Quote #1: “Winston turned a switch and the voice sank somewhat, though the words were still distinguishable. The instrument, called the telescreen, it could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely.” Technology is portrayed as another instrument of repression and surveillance in 1984. There was also technology that was violent , torture was an effective