Analysis Of George Orwell 's 1984

The fictional novel, 1984 by George Orwell is about a world run by a totalitarian government, called the Party, which takes away all the freedoms of its citizens by watching over them with high surveillance technology. In addition, the Party uses dishonesty and betrayal to expose people’s true feelings of Oceania, the country where the story takes place. Betrayal is seen throughout society in Oceania through government manipulation and actions made by Winston, Julia and O’Brien, the main characters. Winston’s true self-betrayal comes when he realizes his new passionate love for Big Brother, the leader of the Party and Oceania. The Party fears a rebellion against them, as a result they use different methods to eliminate trust between

So many users of the internet blindly browse and post on these sites without any thought to the online identity they are creating for themselves. Shares, tweets, hashtags, likes, and comments all combine to make up an amalgamation of marketable information. In November of 2016, an average of six thousand tweets were made per second, and ninety-five million Instagram posts were made per day (Sayce; Parker). Facebook “has become the largest database of personal information ever collected,” says Richard, and Facebook takes advantage of this. With almost two billion users, Facebook has no shortage of information to gather (Sparks). They do this mainly for targeted advertising. There is no small profit to be made in this. In 2011 Lori Andrews wrote, “Facebook made $3.2 billion in advertising revenue last year, 85% of it's total revenue.” However, Facebook and other internet corporations also relay data gathered on users to the

There is a lot that can be learned about a person by looking at their personal social media sites. Quite often they set their sites up so anyone can see their information. When they click, “public” on their settings, anyone can access their information. If a person chooses to set their site on public, then it is completely ethical for anyone, including the government, police, or even school to monitor their page. By setting it on public,

The government is not as it appears, contrary to how the population views it. In his novel, 1984, George Orwell discusses how the government in London took full control of the people, brainwashing them into believing they were trying to help them. The government’s supposed means of “help” was actually a method to spy on and take away the rights of the citizens. Similar to this fictional government, our present day news articles discuss evidence of the ways our government is currently spying on people, taking away their rights of privacy.

It is important to realize the dangers of government surveillance; personal information containing sensitive details about an individual 's private life put in the wrong hands or otherwise used incorrectly could potentially have disastrous repercussions. In today 's interconnected world, everything that is said and done online is

citizens in the data net. In 2013, Edward Snowden brought to light how the NSA can demand information from firms like Google and Microsoft. In addition, they can use a program called “PRISM” to collect citizen internet traffic such as email content and social media activity (The Guardian 2013). Instead of focusing on criminals, the government is slowly turning their attention to everyone. Collecting data in this way is an infringement upon rights guaranteed in the fourth amendment. The fourth amendment requires law enforcement to go to courts and show probable cause to prevent dragnet surveillance: a system of coordinated procedures for apprehending criminals or suspects; including road barricades and traffic stops, widespread DNA tests, and general increased police alertness (American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language). Targeted investigations help protect people from being subject to general searches by an abusive government. We do need to collect more data. We need better ways of understanding the information we

And with 3 billion phone calls made and 150 billion emails sent to and from the United States every day, the collection of this personal data without specifying the limits to their searches is unclear and unjust. Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Yahoo among many others have recently, under protection from the Obama administration, revealed details as to the statistics of government collection. Even our nation's biggest telecom companies, AT&T and Verizon, were obliged to work with the NSA, lately disclosing information on the filtering equipment they were necessitated to use. The storage of this data for prolonged periods of time also makes these companies and their users vulnerable to security breaches such as theft and attack by hackers; for example, the cyber-security firm Trustwave discovered a server on November 24, 2013 which contained the information of over 318,000 accounts on Facebook. This breach was evidently made possible by companies storing data for an unnecessary amount of time as well as a weakened encryption standard. Both were implemented and enforced by the NSA, and the forced retention this data for over five years not only renders this metadata vulnerable to theft or misuse, but has also not been proven to be notably valuable in thwarting terrorist attacks.

"The US government along with federal, state, and local have authority over many different aspects of our everyday life. It is important to have structure and security in the society we live in. I believe we all have the right to our privacy to an extent. Government control over Internet content is a topic that is constantly being argued about daily. Monitoring the content of our internet does violate our privacy but, there is understandable reasons on why it should be monitored. The need for privacy, the reasons to what content is being monitored, and how often it is monitored are the focus to the extent of government involvement in internet monitoring.

The United States government has the limited right to monitor its citizens. Many countries all over the world use censorship to wield power and monitor their subjects and citizens and make sure that the government has complete control. In the United States, where internet and social media are widely used, the government should have some hand in social media and its regulation as well as monitoring for cyber crime. Take for instance, England, the country has seen a steady increase in crime rate with internet use and social media, from people posting threats or illegal things such as geomarked photos of fully automatic weapons to tracking files illegally downloaded and obtained, such as child pornography or accessing illegal markets for goods

As human beings, there are distinct characteristics that separate us from feral animals; the ability to create, to appreciate art, to curiously question the world and most importantly to sympathize for our kind. However, when that exact nature is stripped from us, we tend to become mindless, restricted, cold, and degraded as an entire race. This is the setting of George Orwell’s last book, 1984. A world where human thought is limited, war and poverty lie on every street corner, and one cannot trust nobody or nothing. It is all due to the one reigning political entity, the Ingsoc Party, who imposes complete power over all aspects of life for all citizens. There is no creative or intellectual thought, no art, culture or history, and no

Did you know that every call you make, every purchase you make online, and almost anything else you do on the internet is recorded and stored on government servers? It’s scary but very true, unfortunately. It has been released in recent news that the US government has been spying on not only its citizens, but also other nations. The revelations started last summer and more and more has been uncovered since then. E-mails, texts, pictures all other sorts of data is mined and collected by the government for years now.

NSA has direct access to data from Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, YouTube, Apple and much more (Dagbladet, 2013).

Everyday our government plays a crucial role in our lives, including how we interact and communicate with others on the web and through social media. In recent years, governments have gained too much access to our personal lives by collecting our metadata. Several countries like the United States, Britain and Australia have all been known to be at fault for invading its citizens’ privacy by collecting involuntary information.

The U.S. Government has turned the Internet into something it was never intended to be: a system for spying on us in our most private moments. Out of control government

On the topic of there being even more government monitoring, we need to look at how internet usage is monitored in the first place. The article by M. Kerner (8/24/17)about the internet security vendor Versive, shows us exactly what we need to know. First, we need a basic understanding about internet security monitoring, and why it’s needed. Internet Monitoring is needed due to the risk of potential threats of terrorism, online identity theft, and other malicious and illegal deeds. Now, they way internet attacks