According to the Cambridge Dictionary, surveillance is the act of watching a person or a place, especially a person believed to be involved with criminal activity or a place where criminals gather (“untenable”). Surveillance, in the United States, is an extremely debated topic for many citizens. One person might contemplate what are the costs, and benefits; which was one of Katerina Hadjimatheou’s many points in her article on surveillance. Other citizens might ask themselves, how much of our privacy are they willing to relinquish for the “common good”, before we end up giving up everything? What will our future look like? Throughout the duration of this paper I will be assessing Moxie Marlinspike’s article, Why ‘I have Nothing to Hide’ is
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I also believe, that he uses his own opinion on the subject, rather than clear facts. In the matter of my opinion, I believe, a number of his arguments to be fallacious. More so one of his points, to back his argument, seems it would be irrelevant to surveillance. One being the legalization of marijuana, and same sex marriage. I understand how he is attempting to correlate the two topics with the saying, “Why I have nothing to hide”, might be the mistaken way to consider surveillance, but I also feel that he could have made stronger points to better his argument. During the duration of his article, I find him to contradicting himself. For example, he claims that with technology surveillance with law enforcement is happening all of the time, after this he states that, “If everyone’s every action were being monitored…”, then persists to claim it is a potential abuse. I believe some of his argument can be misleading, as well as false, he states in his article that, “Police already abuse the immense power they have…”, this claim would only be true is in fact all of law enforcement did abuse their power. In any profession one might come across, there may be several personnel, who do misuse their power; but you can’t claim that all personnel of a specific profession participate in the misuse of their power (par.
I also believe, that he uses his own opinion on the subject, rather than clear facts. In the matter of my opinion, I believe, a number of his arguments to be fallacious. More so one of his points, to back his argument, seems it would be irrelevant to surveillance. One being the legalization of marijuana, and same sex marriage. I understand how he is attempting to correlate the two topics with the saying, “Why I have nothing to hide”, might be the mistaken way to consider surveillance, but I also feel that he could have made stronger points to better his argument. During the duration of his article, I find him to contradicting himself. For example, he claims that with technology surveillance with law enforcement is happening all of the time, after this he states that, “If everyone’s every action were being monitored…”, then persists to claim it is a potential abuse. I believe some of his argument can be misleading, as well as false, he states in his article that, “Police already abuse the immense power they have…”, this claim would only be true is in fact all of law enforcement did abuse their power. In any profession one might come across, there may be several personnel, who do misuse their power; but you can’t claim that all personnel of a specific profession participate in the misuse of their power (par.