tisdag 12 oktober 2010

Blog assignment 1

After having read the article "Snooping Bosses" my initial feeling was that we're moving into, if we aren't already there, a Big Brother society. Although the article gave me an impression of "focus your attention to this slowly growing issue" they also refrain from distinctly taking sides.

Personally, I feel that this issue is a never-ending loop. Individuals who side with it being the proper way to go about life, that is to end the existence of privacy, claim that if you have nothing to hide you should not have anything against being monitored. Individuals who side with this being a creation of Orwell's 1984, claim that even though one has nothing to hide, the power of monitoring others will be abused since there is nobody watching "Big Brother".

Technology is a wonderful creation and anyone who disagrees, dare I say, doesn't have their head screwed on right. But as long as there are humans involved there will always be mistakes and there were always be abuse and situations taken advantage of. Therefore it is my opinion that privacy is a must and should be a right given to every human being.