In this world what can be counted as private? The actual term privacy means "seperated from the rest. Deprived of something." So going by this definition, why are we always being watched, monitored and observed like sheep at a farm?
In July 2013, Edward Snowden released secret NSA info that was called " the most significant leak in U.S. history". He was given two awards out of the U.S.A. for exposing the monitoring and storage of communication data, which shows that in modern society we are never truly alone.
There are many forms of being watched and monitored. One of them is cameras. Everywhere you look, there will be a camera looking back at you. In stores, on the streets, on the roads, at home, even on game consoles such as the X-Box 360 Kinect. Another form of being tracked would be something called RFID chips, which stands for Radio Frequency Identification.
Canada has established a Privacy act which imposes restrictions on how government agencies deal with peoples personal information.
The sight of the modern world reminds me of a book that i read a while back. A very good book called 1984 written by George Orwell in 1949 about a man who lives in a world where privacy is basically gone. The dictator has set up cameras everywhere to moniter everyone and see what is going on. To make sure that people have affection for him, He shows them the most hated person in the country and then shows a picture of Big Brother.
He has established thought police so that not even your thoughts can be treachurous and rebellious. The man in the book buys a journal and secretly writes in it in a small blindspot from the cameras. Being hidden because there is no law and you can be arrested for anything.
Happy Veterans Day, and remember
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