1984 By George Orwell Analysis

5 Ways You Give The Government Control” written by Kenneth Coats shows how the devices we use daily slowly take over individuals lives. Coats states, “Today, most people in the United States carry a mobile phone that accompanies them wherever they go. We use them for everything...This essentially makes them the perfect tracking and bugging devices”. Although electronic devices are known to be safe, they allow outside people to figure out individuals personal life. Due to the need for devices such as cell phones, each individual has a high chance of being socially stalked once in their lifetime. Coats then states, “Not only do intelligence agencies gather information via mobile companies, but… your phone can be hacked using spyware. Even if your phone is turned off, it can be remotely accessed to recorded conversations and take photographs”. This issue causes a panic due to the wide spread of inappropriate pictures and private conversations in one's life. Even though technology is viewed as a privileged, it is also taking away people's lives without their

Is anyone’s private information contained in their cell phone actually private? Are appointments, bank information, conversations, the user’s location or other sensitive personal information truly confidential? Is there a Big Brother watching? There is no definitive answer to any of these questions. From the beginning of time to now, privacy has become more and more scarce. Through new developments in technology, it is hard to believe that someone is not watching your move at any given moment. The government’s job is to keep Americans safe, but where is the line drawn? Where is the difference between having a reasonable doubt and accessing information solely because these government officials have the power to do so? The government has infringed upon the rights of the American people when it comes to this topic.

Technology has become more accessible to the point it has become easier for government to watch everyone's move. In this generation technology takes over everyone's daily life, where people wakes up and the first thing is look at is the phone. A phone there are many things on it, like text, pictures and videos. Phones can do many things, but there is a possibility where the government can tap into a phone and look through it. The government can watch everyone’s: text, history, private info, and pictures. Government has no right to looking through people’s personal info because it violates Fourth amendment, Blackmail, and Creates fear.

Nowadays, phones have been glued to our hands. But how many people would be attracted to their phones if they know they are being tracked? Over the recent years as technology began to grow phones has been a big success. People are making calls, sending text messages, accessing the Internet , and sharing personal data.It doesn't matter whether your phone is a smartphone or whether you use it to make calls; as long as your phone is turned on, it registers its location with cell phone networks several times a minute, and all U.S. cell phone companies hold on to that data, some of them for years.

16. In the final analysis, how accurate was Orwell in his vision of the future? In what ways does our contemporary society compare to his idea of society in 1984? Are there examples in which he was correct? What is most contrary? Do you see a potential for aspects of Orwell’s “vision” to come true?

The quest for privacy and security has always been a long and arduous one, as America’s citizens “no longer care” about the lack of integrity which the American government is showing towards its citizens (Sullivan). “When you have it, you don’t notice it. Only when it’s gone do you wish you’d done more to protect it.” Sullivan explains in Privacy under attack, but does anybody care?. After the National Security Agency was accused of “systematically collecting information” on citizens’ phone calls, emails, and countless other sources, “the news media treated it as a complete revelation” (Whitehead). People throughout the country protested and condemned the government—all while they failed to realize that we have consciously permitted the government to collect and secure our private information by “giving our personal information” to companies who ask for it, and by “allowing our personal lives to be posted on media sources such as Facebook and Twitter” (Washington). Ironically enough, we ourselves have

Do you feel comfortable with someone watching and listening to every single thing you do? American citizens are being violated every single moment. For instance, the government can track and record every single thing we do. They can even go back and provide records from a long time ago. In this case, the privacy violations Americans experience today are similar to the privacy violations in 1984 because of the ways they exploit everyone’s privacy.

Government surveillance in the past was not a big threat due to the limitations on technology; however, in the current day, it has become an immense power for the government. Taylor, author of a book on Electronic Surveillance supports, "A generation ago, when records were tucked away on paper in manila folders, there was some assurance that such information wouldn 't be spread everywhere. Now, however, our life stories are available at the push of a button" (Taylor 111). With more and more Americans logging into social media cites and using text-messaging devices, the more providers of metadata the government has. In her journal “The Virtuous Spy: Privacy as an Ethical Limit”, Anita L. Allen, an expert on privacy law, writes, “Contemporary technologies of data collection make secret, privacy invading surveillance easy and nearly irresistible. For every technology of confidential personal communication…there are one or more counter-technologies of eavesdropping” (Allen 1). Being in the middle of the Digital Age, we have to be much more careful of the kinds of information we put in our digital devices.

Nowadays in today’s society it's like if we’re living 1984 just how George Orwell predicted it would be. At all times we are all being monitored whether it's thru a camera or an electronic. The national security is now able to keep telephone & internet records. Just when you thought your private moments were private, turns out you're wrong.

What is privacy? Is it the ability to be in a situation which allows you to do things without other people seeing you or disturbing you? If it is, then it is always being violated by new and upcoming technologies. One of many technologies that are challenging privacy is NSA Phone tapping. NSA Phone tapping is a program that allows a person to monitor whom a person calls and when a person calls. This program started in 1952 but required a warrant to spy on Americans. After the attacks on the twin towers The white house asked the NSA what they could do to protect American while still being legal. The White house allowed the NSA to track Americans calling a person from Afghanistan. The NSA believed they were authorized to track domestic phone calls and emails, eventually the attorney general decided the program was legal. Only recently when Edward Snowden exposed the NSA of their wicked doings there has been an unrest among Americans. N and advancing technologies such as NSA phone tapping has certainly negatively affected privacy in this era because it causes the citizen’s moral to be low, it can be obtained by bad people and it's ineffective.

Today’s invasion of privacy from American citizens could be considered Orwellian. “Orwellian… might refer to a totalitarian government, a government that tries to control all the actions and beliefs of its citizens. It might refer to the use of surveillance technology, such as hidden cameras and microphones, as part of that effort to control” (Edlund, 2016, p. 53). Another reason why citizens should be worried is that there are new technologies advancing each day. Every day a better technological device is invented and it only gets better, advancing ti’s way up to the top.

With advanced technology being developed, it is easier to spy on citizens. Phones are like “personal information gatherers”

The strongest people are poor, starving, and treated like animals. In 1948, author George Orwell wrote the dystopian novel 1984. In 1984, Orwell created a world without freedom of speech, motion, and thought to portray an idea of our world with totalitarian power. In the book, it follows a member of the Outer Party named Winston, and his fight to keep his freedom of thought through love, rebellion, and secrecy. Throughout the book, it portrays three important themes, War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength. The statement, “Ignorance is Strength” is a deep meaning throughout George Orwell’s 1984 due to the jocundity of the Proles, the rigid rules and expectations of both the Inner and Outer party, and Big Brother’s strive

Though Orwell’s novel is written well ahead of his time (written in 1949) his ideas should not be disregarded. As our technology continues to advance more and more people are letting it manipulate their lives and is leading to a toxic and controlling influence in everyday life, similar to that of Orwell’s fiction novel. The authoritarian government that was portrayed in the novel

Stingray is a sophisticated, portable device that is able to trail cell phone signals inside homes, vehicles and even insulated buildings. In this system, Stingray trackers operate as fake cell towers. This allows law enforcers to pin down the location of a targeted mobile device by sucking up data such as emails, text messages and cell-site information. Consequently, when a suspect makes a phone call, the system will trick the cell into sending its signal back to law enforcers, thereby preventing the signal from travelling back to the individual’s wireless carrier. Stingray is also capable of extracting data off other cell phone users in that location.