Comparison Of That's No Phone Thats My Tracker By George Orwell

If you think about it we’re still living in the past. Although we have faster technology, it's still the same. Our world today is just like the world in the 1984 novel. 1984 is a fictional novel about a totalitarian government that controls and watch everything their people do. Our government isn't in total control but they are still in our business watching everything we do. think it’s the same because of how their technology was used to spy on their people. In 1984 the government used technology such as the Telescreen, the Speakwrite, and the Helicopters. The telescreen is a 2 way screen that can hear everything, can’t be turned off and is placed everywhere. The helicopter is just like a drone or a camera that hovers over the city watching everything. The speakwrite is used to change headlines to whatever Big Brother (the government) wants. “ The instrument could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely (Orwell, pg. 2).” The telescreen is always on no matter what, so it allows the government to watch your every move.

Just like how the telescreens watch every move, the government uses our cell phones to track our every move. In the article “That’s No Phone, That’s My Tracker” by Peter Maass and Megha Rajagopalan is says how the government can track our calls and where they are being made from for surveillance. “It appears that millions of cellphone users have been swept up in government surveillance of their calls and where they made them from (Maass and Rajagopalan, 2012).” Most likely every call we make is under surveillance, so your conversation isn’t