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Privacy Violations In The Book 1984 By George Orwell

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There’s a question americans usually ask themselves, is the government trustable? Many citizens would answer no, many americans believe that the government is constantly watching them. The privacy of americans citizens is being violated by the gps trackers in our phones that the government can see and monitor, how the governments listens to our calls and how they store all our information. This is similar to the privacy violations explored in 1984 by showing how in 1984 Big Brother is constantly watching it’s citizens.
In the book 1984 by George Orwell, Winston explains that Big Brother is constantly watching them. According to 1984, “...so as long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard” (Orwell, pg.3). The telescreens in the book 1984, were placed in almost every part of the city. Nobody was freed from the telescreens, they were constantly watching and listening to them. As stated in 1984, “It was the Police Patrol, snooping into people's windows” (Orwell, pg.2). The government was free to spy to its …show more content…

DesMarais explains that, “Location services company Navizon says that ITS can provide accurate tracking of Wi-Fi enabled devices…” (DesMarais, 2012). Any device that is connected to the internet can be tracked and anyone can use this to find the location of the owner. She states that “... what's really interesting about Skyhook is its ability to profile individual devices… and know which ones are associated with certain kinds of people”(DesMarais, 2012). Skyhook is a hybrid location system that determines the coordinates of a device, even indoors. Skyhook can profile individual devices, it can figure where a devices lives, then can add demographic data such as age and

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They have the opportunity to choose what they want to watch and when with no fear that they are being monitored. Telescreens are everywhere in 1984, they promote pro-government propaganda and, unlike television sets, allow Big Brother to constantly see what his citizens are doing. Winston lives in paranoia of being caught by the Thought Police due to the way Big Brother makes himself ubiquitous, “always the telescreens watching you and the voice enveloping you” (Orwell 27). By monitoring citizens, limiting language, and regulating activities, Big Brother has full control. Having complete control also means having complete knowledge.

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From Orwell’s novel, “1984”, it can be determined that his opinion on the most powerful means of control by the government would be the government’s use of fear to instill paranoia among the people. One powerful piece of corroboration for fear to paranoia would be Oceania’s obvious, and constant, use of technology to fulfill this goal. Take, for instance, the telescreens. Because of their existence in every buildings’ rooms and corners, they can be easily used to keep an eye on party members, and if need be, used to track their location and arrest them. Winston experiences the surveillance inflicted by the government during one of his daily workouts,as right when he stopped trying in order to ponder the conspiracies surrounding the party,

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Imagine for a second that every phone call you make, every text message you send, and every place you go is being constantly monitored by multiple governments. Well this is basically what the United State and United Kingdom's government is doing on a daily basis. The United States National Security Agency has been implementing projects in secret to monitoring people since 2001 but it would still be kept as a secret if Edward Snowden did not reveal this massive secret that was intruding the public’s privacy for years. The U.S. surveillance program started because of the September 9th, 2001 terrorist attack that hijacked airplanes and slammed them into the World Trade Center towers.

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A totalitarian government requires its citizens to be recluse, fearful and hateful to remain in power. In 1984, a novel by George Orwell, the ruling party breaks conventional relationships such as families to refocus all the trust and love in those relationships to Big Brother. They also create fear and use it in excess to control the citizens and their actions but most importantly, the strongest emotion that the party uses in their favor is hate. Hate along with fear, and the lack of strength in traditional relationships allows the government to have absolute control over its citizens, which it needs to remain in power. First, the party disconnects traditional bonds and relationships in order redirect all love, devotion and trust

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Cellphones are everywhere, with everyone at all time that it has become a danger to our privacy. During the last decade, technology has been evolving at a speedy rate. As predicted by George Orwell the parallel elements between his novel and our present day are significant. We have similar technology, similar tracking, similar invasion of privacy, and similar over reaches. The present has become an updated version of George Orwell’s 1984 novel.

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American citizens live in a world where there’s freedom of many things. Citizens are allowed to practice their right to freedom of religion in public worship places, free speech in public, even their sexuality in public. Yet there’s also an opposite world people have heard about; a world in which a totalitarian government forces its citizens to be subject to every law to the fullest extent, and the worst part? The citizens have no freedom at all. In 1984, that world is Oceania; the all totalitarian dictatorship governing body.

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Surveillance is portrayed in the novel in various ways, but we first see it was CCTV, they are somewhat dull, an “oblong metal plaque” formed in the wall. This depicts “any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very whisper, would be picked up by it” (5-8). Not only does this shows, surveillance cameras, but it shows how CCTV are being used according to 1984. In today’s government, they use CCTV in every

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The U.S. government is invading the privacy of its’ citizens through the use of mobile devices such as phones and laptops. This use of privacy invasion is similar to the technology used in George Orwell’s novel 1984. What makes today relate to 1984 is how the government tracks us through location, voice, and messaging. George Orwell’s 1984 has a totalitarian government that can track its’ citizens through location with the use of telescreens. In the novel, telescreens can track your location in a room through a telescreen, which is demonstrated by Winston´s thought ¨so long as you remained within the field of vision … you could be seen¨ (Orwell, page 3).

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What’s more important: freedom or privacy? Freedom allows you to have your own say in what you do but it does not allow you privacy. With freedom, you’d still be watched and monitored. Everything that you say and do with be tracked in order to make sure you are not harming others or yourself. The characters in the book are monitored by the the Party and the Thought Police.

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