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 are being monitored are unaware that this is happening. Do you think the advantages of this development outweigh the disadvantages?

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In the
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10 years, there has been an increasing amount of people who feel concerned about protecting their private life.
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, in nowadays,
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is often utilised as a way of monitoring people’s activities. Yet, many people do not know that they are being monitored. In
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part, expose the positive outcomes of
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way of using
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I shall explain why they do not outweigh the negative outcomes. Many technological
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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.
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, Facebook tracks down its users in
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the objective
of targeting them with specific ads. According to the CEO of Facebook,
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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.
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, I believe there are many problems behind
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methods. Targeting potential consumers with specific ads without notifying them is, in my opinion, highly unethical.
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it was not its initial purpose,
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is now used to monitor what people do in order to increase the sales and
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the profits of
compagnies
an institution created to conduct business
companies
. Sadly, these
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firms
do not care the fact that they purely violate the privacy of their customers. To a
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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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the people’s opinion. By spying on us, these
compagnies
an institution created to conduct business
companies
violate their proper integrity. In conclusion,
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monitoring people with
technology
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might be interesting for businesses who want to increase their sales, it is still a huge threat to the people’s privacy. To a
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extent, we could compare the use
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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.
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