The country of India is experiencing human rights violations every day. India is known as a “Subcontinent” because the Himalayan Mountains nearly block off the entire nation from the rest of Asia. India has one of the largest populations of any country. In fact, the current population is estimated to be approximately 1.27 billion people. This means that the population density of India is about 1001 people per square mile (India Population). This extreme overcrowding can lead to serious issues among the people. Many people have seen photos of public transportation passengers dangerously stacked and stuffed on the outside of busses or trains in India. This is just one example of how people get around the overcrowding factor. There are six main ethnic groups that make up India’s large population, two main languages and the most common religion s Hinduism. Karma is an important aspect in the Hindu religion. The whole aspect of “treat people well and you will be treated well” is kind of ironic in India. This is because so many human rights violations are broken every single day by citizens and most commonly, government officials. The government of India is experiencing corruption and their citizens often fall victim. In addition, needless violence is happening all over the country. We should care about India because the government is corrupt, the people are not treated fairly and the public violence rate is very high.
In India, the government is violating their citizens’ human rights. The government has started increasing their internet surveillance. They monitor cell phone and internet usage to an extreme extent. India: New Monitoring System Threatens Rights explains that “The Indian government’s centralized monitoring is chilling, gi...
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It is becoming very clear that the world is becoming overpowered with electronic devices, and it is no one but the people’s fault for the privacy loss that has and will continue to happen. The amount one spends on their phone or computer a day could be described as outrageous and to some a waste of time. People wonder why privacy is becoming an issue and it is clearly because the more technical we get with technology, the more power the government has over the people. Many people do not even realize that they are being watched. When they are on their electronic device they have no idea that the government can very easily be monitoring what they are doing. This is very similar to what happens in the
The government is always watching to ensure safety of their country, including everything and everyone in it. Camera surveillance has become an accepted and almost expected addition to modern safety and crime prevention (“Where” para 1). Many people willingly give authorization to companies like Google and Facebook to make billions selling their personal preferences, interests, and data. Canada participates with the United States and other countries in monitoring national and even global communications (“Where” para 2). Many question the usefulness of this kind of surveillance (Hier, Let, and Walby 1).However, surveillance, used non-discriminatorily, is, arguably, the key technology to preventing terrorist plots (Eijkman 1). Government surveillance is a rising global controversy; and, although minimal coverage could possibly result in safer communities, too much surveillance will result in the violation of citizen’s privacy.
Whether the U.S. government should strongly keep monitoring U.S. citizens or not still is a long and fierce dispute. Recently, the debate became more brutal when technology, an indispensable tool for modern live, has been used by the law enforcement and national security officials to spy into American people’s domestic.
The internet is a place where people can freely express their political or other views for people to see. A recent study, Freedom of Net, by the activist group Freedom House shows both the immense censorship of information around the world and the declining freedom of information around the world, “Two-thirds of all internet users, 67 per cent, live in countries where criticism of the government, military, or ruling family are subject to censorship” (APF & Bell). The report by Freedom House digs into the censorship of government criticism, military criticism, and negative views on the ruling family in two thirds of countries studied in the report with governments around the world are silencing the voices of people and their publications. By censoring the people's voices, the governments are able to control the population and their views on not only their own government, but also countries around the world. Governments around the world are stepping up their censorship of public information posted on social media by taking actions to suppress the publications before they even begin. The report by Freedom House shares how police around the world are arresting and punishing those who have taken to social media to complain about a topic that makes the country look bad. The report states: “Social media users face unprecedented penalties, as authorities in 38 countries made
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Throughout many years in the United States, there has been controversy over whether or not government surveillance and other technology is a violation of human rights. Ever since the publication of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, there has been an increase in debates on the subject. The novel itself exemplifies what a surveillance-based society is like, providing the reader with a point of view of what could happen to their own society. Discussion over the usage of information that the government has gathered has become one of the foremost topics being analyzed to this day. The information that is being viewed by surveillance would otherwise be private, or information that people would not want to be leaked out. Therefore, surveillance executed by the government and companies has become an infringement to the right of privacy, and United States citizens should take actions upon it before the world reflects the Orwellian vision of the future.
Big Brother and the Party use technology to insure fear in the people and that they fall completely under their control. Phone security is beginning to greatly diminish. Mobile carriers, for example, do not even request for search warrants when they need to access private information. “It appears that millions of cellphone carriers have been swept up in government surveillance of their calls and where they made them from. Many police agencies don’t obtain search warrants when requesting location data from carriers,” (Maass/Rajagopalan 2). By the government doing this without the people’s permission, they are acting like the Party and the words, “Big Brother is watching you,” comes up. With our privacy getting less and less, our government is slowly becoming like Big Brother and the Party, and like Oceania, citizens will have no
As many issues discussed on the blog revolve around privacy and ethics I decided to conduct an interview that carried these as its core subjects. The interviewee, Maha Ardati, is 21 years of age; placing her in the biggest age group to use technology. She is also a frequent user of the phone and Internet, making her opinion on data collection and the privacy that revolves around it a relevant source of insight.
Being blind in the whole process too. Mr. Maass & Ms. Rajagopalan talks our trackers of devices we have. They tell the readers about what's going on with our devices. The author claims, “Every year, private companies spend millions of dollars developing new services that track, store… share words.. Movements and even thoughts of the customer's”(Maass & Rajagopalan, 2012). This shows how the government takes the time to spend money just to get information using these advanced devices. Maass & Rajagopalan states, “ Cellular systems constantly check and record the location of all phones on their networks…. Data is treasured by the police department & online advertisers (Maass & Rajagopalan, 2012). This shows we are being tracked by our devices, also how much the government is watching
To understand the concept of government surveillance and the different opinion people may have when it comes to it, it is important to first look at the legality of it all. It is no question whether or not legal cases involving the internet and data are different than those with physical evidence. The closest example
Present day, it is seen that the government is having more control over the country which in effect, poses a danger to the people. They lose their individuality in response to the country aiming to be all-powerful and stable. In today’s society, the government has everyone under surveillance through the internet, cell phones, and even vehicles. Many would argue that it is an act against the privacy of the people a...
The Indian government is corrupted and makes promises it is unable to keep. In The White Tiger, Balram describes that the government is “...the world’s greatest democracy. What a fucking joke.” (Adiga 145). When Balram lived in Laxmangarh his right to vote for the prime minister was taken from him, due to the fact that running candidates pay the current government to make sure they are elected. The government system also enables the rich to get richer. They do this by immensely taxing the poor and enforcing the caste system on the poor. The caste system is a labeling system you were born into and of what you are expected of in life. For example Balram had the caste of Halwai, which is derived from “sweet-maker”. This meant Balram was expected to work...
However, government agencies, especially in America, continue to lobby for increased surveillance capabilities, particularly as technologies change and move in the direction of social media. Communications surveillance has extended to Internet and digital communications. law enforcement agencies, like the NSA, have required internet providers and telecommunications companies to monitor users’ traffic. Many of these activities are performed under ambiguous legal basis and remain unknown to the general public, although the media’s recent preoccupation with these surveillance and privacy issues is a setting a trending agenda.
Part of the allure of the Internet has always been the anonymity it offers its users. As the Internet has grown however, causing capitalists and governments to enter the picture, the old rules are changing fast. E-commerce firms employ the latest technologies to track minute details on customer behavior. The FBI's Carnivore email-tracking system is being increasingly used to infringe on the privacy of netizens. Corporations now monitor their employees' web and email usage. In addition to these privacy infringements, Internet users are also having their use censored, as governments, corporations, and other institutions block access to certain sites. However, as technology can be used to wage war on personal freedoms, it can also be employed in the fight against censorship and invasion of privacy.
Privacy from governments has been under assault increasing amounts in the last 100 years. Technology has revolutionized the concept, as before we had microphones, telephones, wiretaps, video cameras, someone would actually need to trespass to violate your privacy. For example, you would need to actually be in someone?s house to eavesdrop on his or her conversation without technological help[1]. Privacy protection can be looked at as how far society can intrude into a person?s personal affairs.