Long Beach Police Privacy

Research Paper

Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves and thereby express themselves selectively. In contrary, the privacy of American citizens are being violated in many ways. The novel The 1984, the article Long Beach Police to Use 400 Cameras Citywide to Fight Crime, and the article That's No Phone. That's My Tracker all conclude that our privacy is being violated in more than one way. Our privacy is being revealed in ways such as the “telescreen”, which can compare to our cellular devices as well as cameras and many people can't feel safe with their life and surroundings .

The privacy in Oceania was violated such as those in our American society now. As stated in The 1984, “ The telescreen received and

That's My Tracker” by Peter Maass and Meghan Rajagopalan also demonstrates that the privacy of many American citizens are being violated day by day. They do so by allowing the government to have access into our mobile devices. As mentioned in “That's No Phone. That's My Tracker” Mass and Rajagopalan mentioned, “It appears that millions of cell-phone users have been swept up in government surveillance of their calls and where they are made from” (Mass & Rajagopalan, 2012). The government has the authority to overlook the calls each person makes and where their exact location comes from. Is this really the privacy and liberty the American citizens “have”? In this article it also articulates, “Frictionless sharing, whereby social networks automatically let our friends know what we are reading or listening to” (Mass & Rajagopalan, 2012). People don't have to give you permission to allow you to know where they are located or what you are doing. In reality it doesn't take much for a person to investigate and figure it out and the government has really taken advantage of

As a comparison to the novel The 1984 the government is watching us and has the authority to watch more of us than we have the knowledge of. The articles mentioned articulates the way the government can easily investigate what we are doing and where we are doing them. I agree with the government trying to be safer and have more surveillance but not everyone is a criminal and not everyone should be kept on surveillance. These ways of helping out government can easily be handed over into the wrong hands and be used for the wrong