Persuasive Speech On Surveillance

Surveillance is not a new thing. In fact, espionage, tracking, and sleuthing were part of society ever since 5000 B.C. But in the rise of the modern era, the idea of surveillance in the public eye serves as a controversial topic of discussion. People everywhere complain about the existence of security cameras, government tracking, and the right to privacy. Such problems, however, are not due to the sudden discovery of surveillance, but the modern abuse of it. Seeing the disastrous effects of over surveillance from George Orwell’s 1984, the public rightfully fears societal deterioration through modern surveillance abuse portrayed in Matthew Hutson’s “Even Bugs Will Be Bugged” and the effects of such in Jennifer Golbeck’s “All Eyes On You”. The abuse of surveillance induces the fear of discovery through the invasion of privacy, and ensures the omnipresence of one’s past that haunt future endeavors, to ultimately obstruct human development and the progress of society overall.

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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.

We need to take the threat of surveillance seriously and how we can stop it from affecting our

D. Thesis-Today I will give an overview of the types of surveillance technologies that exist, how things have changed in recent years, and why they are controversial.

Specific Purpose: My purpose of this presentation is to inform listeners about the dangers of government surveillance and why it should be stopped.

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Currently, many Americans are unaware of the extent of government surveillance. In fact, most of the government’s data is gathered from the internet without specific permission from the individuals who submit it to the internet. Although most people are aware that the government is watching their internet browsing, they do not fully understand the extent of mass surveillance. As a result, few take time to do research on government surveillance. Thus, the Government takes advantage of the American people because of their ignorance. However, they would not have such an advantage if the American public educated themselves, and then spoke out against mass surveillance.

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The report puts forward some questions about how mass surveillance is affecting our country, and where to draw the line when it comes to watching our population. The main aim of this article is to shed the light on how far the government is taking public surveillance so that people can know exactly how private their lives are, and make a

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