Privacy
Am I being watched right now? This question is being asked more and more everyday. In my view, society's idea of privacy has greatly changed, for the negative, as nowadays we don't know whether we are under surveillance, or in the comfort of our own privacy. Everyday, more scientific breakthroughs heed the way for new and improved technology, more than likely to increase safety, although is safety a good exchange for privacy? One-way people have sacrificed safety for privacy is through phone taps. A long time ago, nobody had these machines, but now, everyone and their mothers have them. Caller I.D. is a primitive phone tap, which allows us to see who has called and when. Anyone can purchase a little more complex version of this device, which allows him or her to hear any call within a mile radius. An even more complex phone tap, for example one that is used by the F.
In conclusion, privacy as we know it is rapidly going from a flourishing idea to nothing but a withering ideology. However, only if our world continues in the direction it currently is. People should realize that the more honest people become, the more privacy everybody will eventually be rewarded with, as no one will have uses for surveillance systems. Back in the day, nobody ever had to monitor anyone. A citizens idea of privacy used to be being able to leave their doors unlocked, blinds and windows open, and feel free to go shopping without somebody watching them like a hawk. We were a trusting people, but now, as our world moves from the industrial age into the information age, almost everyone has a camera on them. Now, not to many people leave their houses without closing all of the blinds and windows, setting the alarm, and turning on a few lights to make it appear as if someo
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