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Spies In 1984

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The phrase “Big Brother is Watching You,” is a powerful slogan in the novel 1984, written by George Orwell, which can foresee how his novel can or will become a reality to current society. In the novel, citizens living in Oceania lives in a world where they are constantly being surveillanced by their government. The totalitarian government control and monitor everything citizen do to ensure that they will not rebel against Big Brother and stay loyal to the Party. Telescreens, microphones to listen to people’s conversation, thought police, and spies are used to detect and watch everyone’s daily lives from doing anything that goes against the Party; their freedom and beliefs are destructive in the Orwellian society. In today’s society, we wouldn’t want to live in a world where we are control by the government, however we are …show more content…

In today’s society, the National Security Agency (NSA)has similarities to Thought Police. In 2005, NSA surveillanced American’s cell phones call and Internet communication illegally; they had the help from major telecommunication. In an article by BBC NEWS, “ Edward Snowden: Leaks that exposed US SPy programme” (2014), explain about the issue when Snowden released information that NSA was collecting telephone and internet records from massive amount of Americans, without citizens knowing about it. Verizon, AT&T, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo would use these servers to track online and telephone communication.This feared many people that the government have been spying on citizens and digging through information. Similar to 1984, citizens fear that rebellion against the Big Brother of invasion of privacy would end them up

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