How safe do you feel at any given moment under this government? If you answered very to moderately safe, I will show you why you should rethink that. The government's control of its people is a problem. The even bigger problem is that the people are not trying to do anything about it. Or they do not know this is even happening right under their noses. My job is to open your eyes to things you should be aware of because it affects you tremendously. Along with making troubling comparisons to George Orwell’s 1984 and today’s society. The government tends to spy on its citizens, spread propaganda, and has a little too much control in this democracy. Technology is a wonderful advancement to mankind, but it has its dark sides. Your precious electronic …show more content…
Once it is downloaded the FBI has the ability to spy on you undetected, whenever they please. To make matters even worse, the judicial system has no laws in place to restrict the government from this, so they have to make them up as the cases arise. In addition, this paved the way for ordinary people to gain remote access to anyone’s webcams or cellphone cameras. The purpose? To record live video feeds of the owner. They can do anything they want with this footage. Possibilities range from blackmail to uploading it to certain websites for anyone's entertainment. Your smart TV has a questionable history of spying on its owners too. Engineers within the CIA created a malware called The Weeping Angel. They started implementing this into smart TVs by Samsung in 2014. “ The Weeping Angel malware was reportedly able to place TVs into a "Fake-Off" mode, where users thought the TV was off, but it was actually recording any conversation in the room and sending it over the internet to CIA servers.”. (Willcox, 2017) Nothing appears to be safe with the rise of smart devices. Watch out for that toaster you have been eyeing with the fancy settings. Because who knows if it will be listening too. If that wasn’t scary