![]() As modern technology advances, hackers hacking into your security cameras or Alexa or any voice assistants picking up everything a person says becomes more dangerous since a person can leave themselves vulnerable to the outside world. Many people are not protecting themselves from these dangers. Contrast this with 1984, citizens are constantly being monitored and watched by the Party with a telescreen in their homes and apartments. Also, there are telescreens in public places so no one in Oceania gets a moment of privacy. Citizens have to be careful with what you’re doing, writing, or saying because the telescreen picks up everything. Whereas in today’s society, it is not the government but instead it is criminals or people with an evil intent who hack into your so-called security cameras. What is the point of security cameras if they fail to provide security for a family because they are vulnerable to being hacked? Mowles, an Oshawa resident who sells cameras, muses, “What if they hack our smart door locks?” Mowles muses. “We all talk to our cars. What if they hack your car?” Obviously, he thinks that there is an expanded opportunity for criminal activity - for our cars and houses to be broken into. So, in today’s society a different type of criminal activity is growing. In Nineteen Eighty-Four, in Oceania, they do not actually have security cameras but rather they have telescreens and posters of Big Brother everywhere that act like a security camera or Alexa. Just like Alexa, telescreens pick up everything you say and do: “Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard” (Orwell 4). Hackers and people who are from the Party disguise themselves as if they are not from the Party to trick citizens who have doublethink to believe they are there to help them. An example of this is when Winston and Julia went into the junk shop owned by Mr. Charrington to have their affair in one of the empty rooms. Unbeknownst to both of them, Mr. Charrington is actually a Party member who was acting as someone who is not a Party member so that they would trust him and believe they are out of danger. So they did have the privacy that they so desired, and Mr. Charrington turned them in. In today’s society privacy is also a major issue. Sameer Patil an assistant professor at Indiana University states, “When I go to a friend’s house and he has an Echo, I push the mute button. Is this the end of privacy? That is a question that we will have to answer looking back at history. It could go either way.” Therefore, Patil thinks that this technology, such as Echo and Alexa, can also spell the end of privacy - only time will tell. To conclude, in 1984, citizens are legally monitored for almost everything they say and do. If someone breaks the law, then they are treated harshly by being imprisoned, tortured, or vaporized. However, in today’s society from this article, I have noted that privacy is taken away by Big Brother, but in today’s society, privacy is quietly taken away by large companies with their Alexas and Echos being installed in millions of homes or it can be stolen by criminals who hack into devices.
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