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“The California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (CalECPA) protects Californians by requiring a warrant for digital records, including emails and texts, as well as a user's geographical location. These protections apply not only to your devices, but to online services that store your data. Only two other states have so far offered these protections: Maine and Utah.” Is your personal information safe? Do we really have our privacy? According to”Digital Responsibility,” The National Security Agency more know as (NSA) is an organization that global monitoring, collection, and processing of information and data for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes.Citizen believe that their digital information is being collecting by the …show more content…

In the novel this quote is using because Big Brother is checking every citizen and member of the party because he want to have control for everyone and he need to make sure that no one of the citizen try to reveal to him that is why he have telescreen in every where. The same thing is happening right now because citizen are complaining about how the NSA that represent “Big Brother” is collecting every information about then. “It appears that the police now have a device that can read license plates and check if a car is unregistered, uninsured or stolen. We already know that the National Security Agency can dip into your Facebook page and Google searches. And it seems that almost every store we go into these days wants your home phone number and ZIP code as part of any transaction.” People believe that we are living in the 1984, every student, high school teacher, college teacher, and every one who have read the novel could think that U.S is living in the 1984 because the novel is every accurate with everything that is happening right now with the NSA collecting everyone data but they also believe that is not only the NSA that is begging of all of this, also is the government because the NSA is only following the rules that the government says, the really “Big Brother” here is the government because they only are following the rule that he

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