In George Orwell’s novel 1984, he shows their society ruled by Big Brother. Big brother is a totalitarian state which uses a surveillance to maintain power. Similar to 1984’s government Big Brother, the American government uses various technology to spy and monitor its citizens to prevent rebellion and terrorist attack.
Surveillance is a big key to their success, they use many methods to spy on its citizens. A major Surveillance tool they use is the Telescreen. The Telescreen is both a television and security camera with a microphone. The telescreen transmit both ways it receive propaganda from the government and send live footage of its citizens home. This is to prevent their citizens from rebellion. The way that Winston can think of rebellion …show more content…
The agency searches for and seizes nearly everything we do on the Internet. They will do this without obtaining a warrant, its XKeyscore program scoops up some 40 billion Internet records every month and adds them to its digital storehouse, including our emails, phone calls, and websites visited. Snowden says that in his days as an analyst, he could sit at his computer and tap into any americans internet activity, even the President’s emails. The congress stated that what snowden said was a whole lie. In another analyst Snowden taped into ex-President Bill Clinton's personal email account. It was easy to keep records of your calls if your phone companies were giving the information to the government. AT&T was cooperating with the illegal surveillance with NSA. It seems like the world of George Orwell’s 1984 is here, “The only thing holding us back from that nightmare now are our laws and traditions. Unfortunately, our privacy laws and traditions are looking a bit wobbly these days” With new technology coming out every day, there is more ways the NSA can spy on you. Alexa, google home, and the homepod are good example of the new technology. They can be a microphone that might be turned on all day, listening to your conversations and keeping records without you not even knowing. There are laws to prevent hackers from getting our information; however hackers only need 10 minutes to get your six letters
Surveillance is a big key to their success, they use many methods to spy on its citizens. A major Surveillance tool they use is the Telescreen. The Telescreen is both a television and security camera with a microphone. The telescreen transmit both ways it receive propaganda from the government and send live footage of its citizens home. This is to prevent their citizens from rebellion. The way that Winston can think of rebellion …show more content…
The agency searches for and seizes nearly everything we do on the Internet. They will do this without obtaining a warrant, its XKeyscore program scoops up some 40 billion Internet records every month and adds them to its digital storehouse, including our emails, phone calls, and websites visited. Snowden says that in his days as an analyst, he could sit at his computer and tap into any americans internet activity, even the President’s emails. The congress stated that what snowden said was a whole lie. In another analyst Snowden taped into ex-President Bill Clinton's personal email account. It was easy to keep records of your calls if your phone companies were giving the information to the government. AT&T was cooperating with the illegal surveillance with NSA. It seems like the world of George Orwell’s 1984 is here, “The only thing holding us back from that nightmare now are our laws and traditions. Unfortunately, our privacy laws and traditions are looking a bit wobbly these days” With new technology coming out every day, there is more ways the NSA can spy on you. Alexa, google home, and the homepod are good example of the new technology. They can be a microphone that might be turned on all day, listening to your conversations and keeping records without you not even knowing. There are laws to prevent hackers from getting our information; however hackers only need 10 minutes to get your six letters