Nowadays technology is increasingly being used to monitor what people are saying and doing (for example, through cellphone tracking and security cameras). In many cases, the people being monitored are unaware that this is happening. Do you think the advantages of this development outweigh the disadvantages

In the

last

10 years, there has been an increasing amount of people who feel concerned about protecting their private life.

However

, in nowadays,

technology

is often utilised as a way of monitoring people’s activities. Yet, many people do not know that they are being monitored. In

this

essay, I shall, in a

first

part, expose the positive outcomes of

this

way of using

technology

,

then

I shall explain why they do not outweigh the negative outcomes. Many technological

firm

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firms

like Google or Facebook argue that they monitor people’s private life in order to improve the quality of their service.

For instance

, Facebook tracks down its users in

objective

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the objective

of targeting them with specific ads. According to the CEO of Facebook,

this

method increases the probability of a person being interested in purchasing a product marketed in an advertisement specifically designed for him. Henceforth, people are more likely to buy something on the Internet.

However

, I believe there are many problems behind

such

methods. Targeting potential consumers with specific ads without notifying them is, in my opinion, highly unethical.

Although

it was not its initial purpose,

technology

is now used to monitor what people do in order to increase the sales and

thus

the profits of

compagnies

an institution created to conduct business

companies

. Sadly, these

firm

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firms

do not care the fact that they purely violate the privacy of their customers. To a

larger

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large

extent,

this

participates

to

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in

the process of dehumanisation

;

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;

indeed throughout these immoral practises men are reduced to the level of consumers. In my view, no company should be allowed to know what

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is

the people’s opinion. By spying on us, these

compagnies

an institution created to conduct business

companies

violate their proper integrity. We could conclude by stating that,

although

monitoring people with

technology

might be interesting for businesses who want to increase their sales, it is still a huge threat to the people’s privacy. To a

further

extent, we could compare the use

technology

to monitor us in our society to the novel 1984 written by George Orwell in which the main character Big Brother monitors people lives thanks to drones and CCTV cameras.