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 advantages of this development outweigh the disadvantages?

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ast decade, many people are debates over their privacy concerns. Today there are many technologies available in the market

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can be used as a monitor device to record peoples footsteps. I believe

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development has more disadvantages than its benefits,

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essay will delve into these reasons with relative illustrations. On a positive note, many people believe it is important to have cameras all over the

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to protect the citizen from any terror threat. Governments should invest in good CCTV cameras at all the major

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attraction to promptly identified and revert any crime from happening.

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, In Lahore, road accidents were on increase, when

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officials decided to install traffic cameras on stop signs.

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ignificant effect in decreasing rash driving and catching people who were not obeying the road laws,

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safer place.

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, these cameras can help governments to monitor any suspicious activities taking place and prevent it from happening. The prime

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of

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was during the 2020 US election when two people were planning to attack towards the polling station.

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was immediately intervened by the local police and stopped. But on the other side, though the aforementioned actions can prevent crimes but most of the time, it is done without people's consent and knowledge. Many argue that governments are spying on them, and it is unethical. In many western European countries, recording people without their consent is a crime as an

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Furthermore

, data collected via these technologies are later sold to marketing firms for monetary gains.

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, personal messages and conversation are sold to data science companies to create users profile. These profiles are used to categorize people based on their demographics and preferences.

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, recording user's every moves using technologies like mobile phones breach their personal security. It is same as spying on them around the clock without any motive. These regards are an invasion of privacy and against human rights. To sum up, surveillance of people without their consent is

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nvasion of their privacy and against the law in many countries, so I want to reinforce that use of new technologies for purpose of surveillance is wrong and there disadvantages triumphs their benefits.