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1984 George Orwell Privacy Analysis

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The technology advancement in society is turning back into the World surveillance drawn from the Big Brother and 1984 citing similarities regarding the privacy and security. The current technology exhibits some eerily accurate parallels that confirm the development of telescreens, cameras and digital communication channels as depicted by George Orwell’s “1984,” published about six decades ago. The book that expresses the totalitarian society monitored and controlled by forms of surveillance and censorship has been adopted by the government to ensure the citizen's loyalty to the society. The book also aims to dispel anyone with potential to challenge the state in security and surveillance matters especially to the government security agencies. In the current development analysis on the surveillance technology, the government not only controls the access …show more content…

The assumption of open communication through texting and emails similar to that of Orwell in open transit letters express the expansion of the government agency in exercising total power over the communication privacy. The surveillance technology improvement by the security agencies narrow the possibilities of expressing the privacy. The types of surveillance expressed in the book 1984 include the helicopters, microphones and the police thoughts that closely associate with the current application of security policies by the NSA. The helicopter monitoring over the open house windows and the hidden microphones in various places such as the bushes to pick sounds are some speculations foreseen by Orwell. The current surveillance development proves to develop beyond the imagination with the installation of telescreens, see through walls and collection of trash from homes for investigative

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