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

The use of technology to monitor people's conversations without their consent has become a trend in recent times. There are some advantages as well as disadvantages to

this

practice. I strongly believe that the advantage outweighs the disadvantage. One major disadvantage of tracking people's discussions over the

phone

is that people

loose

fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense

lose

their privacy. Users of mobile phones may no longer feel comfortable discussing private issues over the

phone

. To illustrate, I was on a call with a friend who resides in the United States of America, and I wanted to ask her about a mental

illness she

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illness, she

had in the past; she immediately stopped me and responded in our dialect that our conversation is being recorded. Even though the issue I had brought up was not a security threat, she was not okay talking about it over the

phone

because someone

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may be

listening.

On the other hand

, a major advantage of recording

phone

calls of users is that it helps promote

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the security

of lives and property in a country. People who plan to attack a place will have

phone

conversations about their plans; if these discussions are recorded, the state's security

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may be

able to avert a major disaster.

For example

, in 1900, the government of Liberia was able to stop a major attack on their army because they had listened to the Nigerian army's discussion on their plan of attack in Liberia. In my opinion, the safety of lives is very important so much so that any discomfort that listening

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to

people's calls may cause to anyone may be considered irrelevant. The advantages of listening

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to

phone

calls of residents of a place

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are

more than the disadvantages