Technology vs Privicy

The author, Lori B Andrews, in the article “Technology and Fundamental Rights” states

that “people had no rights to keep them alone because technologies could now track and

record what they did.”(49)Technology helps to invading people’s lives. It makes

people have no privacy. The act of surveillance was operating since the 20th century due to

political and security purpose. In the book “1984”, citizens were monitored by telescreen,

thought police and microphone. The government was in charge of controlling their minds. They

were told what should they do and what should they aware of. Their privacy were totally

disappear. Nowadays, government and companies are tracking people without people’s

consents and awareness. When people go outside, they are monitored by security cameras,

which are placed on streets, in shops, freeways…etc. When people stay at home to surf on the

internet, their tracks are recorded by companies. The more surveillance technologies are

invented, the more people’s personal information is recorded. There is no way that people can

hide and protect their tracks. Thus, people have no privacy. With the invention of technology,

people have no ways to escape from being monitored and exposing personal information at

every moment.

People’s every movement captured by security cameras and telescreen is inevitable.

Living under surveillance cameras becomes part of people’s lives. Citizens get used to be

captured by cameras every day. Although some people dislike living under monitoring, they

have no rights and ways to get away from it. People should be inborn to look natural, behave

well and hide evil face expression in front of security cameras. According to George Orwell in

the book...

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...oblem. Our privacy becomes public to the governments and companies.

There is no difference between now and the past. People are under control of the governments.

The governments have to monitor citizens and collect people’s information. Citizens are

prisoners. They are watched every day and living with surveillance technology. Being

watched and exposing information are people’s fate. It becomes part of our lives.

Works Cited

George Orwell. 1984. New York: New American Library:

Penguin Group (USA), 1977. Print

Lori B. Andrews. I know who you are and what you did:

Technology and Fundamental Rights. New York: Free Press, 2012. Print

Lori B. Andrews. I know who you are and what you did:

George Orwell … Meet Mark Zuckerberg. New York: Free Press, 2012. Print

Walter Kirn. Little Brother Is Watching. New York Times,

15 October, 2010: 2. Print