Chapter 7: Orwell Did Not Guess the Worse Half of It

This CrossCurrent is basically talking Orwell's book, guessing what would happen in the future. It talks about the invasion of privacy in other lives. Orwell came up with a fictional theory that the government would be able to monitor everyone and everywhere. It kind of came true because just about everywhere we go, we are monitored. When we go to the mall there's camera's watching us, search engines keep track of what we look up, stores keep our data of what we shop for and use it to their advantage, and cell phones keep track of our phone calls and minutes used. It's sad to say but it's come to where almost all of our actions are being monitored or being recorded some how with out any privacy.

1)Do you agree with the statement, "People who have done nothing wrong should not worry about surveilance because they have nothing to hide." Explain.
I do not agree with that statement because people who have done nothing wrong are lying. There comes a point once in everybody's lives where someone has to do something wrong, and it has to come up to the person to find a way to fix their wrong. People are prone to make mistakes, otherwise we'd just be robots. Even if we have not done anything wrong, we should still not be surveilanced, because taking a shower is nothing wrong, but i don't want people surveling me while i'm dong that. That's my privacy :)

2)Do you agree with Scott Bradner that individuals should be more worried about threats to privacy from the private sector than from governments? Why or why not?
Yes i agree with Scott Bradner about that idea. We should be more aware of our privacy because people are using us beneif of our nose. They study our private lives and use it to manipulate their products so they can make more cash from it. Wal-Mart is all about this. They collect their register receipts and see what customers bought and which items are more correlated together. Then they use it as a marketing strategy to bait you into buying their items. For example, if sausage and eggs were highly correlated with the customers buying them together, then they would make a special on sausages and eggs together and put them beside each other. Customers are lazy too, so they'll probly put the most expensive sausages and eggs together, and sell them that way. I think it's important that we learn about our privacy and how to avoid being a target.