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

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These days, we are surrounded by technological tools of each type, size and dimension.
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we are using them, they track everything we are doing and they have the access to personal data
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as telephone numbers, photos and even products that we bought. Very often, some
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do not have
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about these devices, so they do not know that
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I will discuss why I think that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, and I will argue about some of them. Without the
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as Google Maps or
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we would not have one of the most significant advantages of nowadays, we
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where we are never been. It is true that
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our location and
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to track where we are, but some
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. On the Internet we can find all we need
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as a pie recipe, free books or music and useful materials for university,
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through our online research, companies can find out our preferences and
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is why sometimes we found products that we would like to have on the recommended part. Unfortunately
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out what we want means
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probably that we will spend more money on those items, and
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is one of the scariest disadvantages because in some
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can provoke the compulsory shopping syndrome. Another disadvantage is that very often our devices have one photo
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, so it is possible that some websites take photos of us during our research. In my
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there are several methods to avoid a wide list of disadvantages,
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you can put a sticker on your webcam so they cannot take videos
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pictures of you and try to not share your position when it is possible.
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cannot live without all the advantages that technologies offer us so but is it important to be aware of the situation to avoid bad
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what we have to be aware
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our security.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • 1. Surveillance
  • 2. Monitoring
  • 3. Cell phone tracking
  • 4. Security cameras
  • 5. Public safety
  • 6. Law enforcement
  • 7. Privacy concerns
  • 8. Personal freedom
  • 9. Autonomous
  • 10. Breach of trust
  • 11. Misuse of information
  • 12. Institutional integrity
  • 13. Psychological impact
  • 14. Mental well-being
  • 15. Societal trust
  • 16. Paranoia
  • 17. Transparency
  • 18. Stringent regulations
  • 19. Criminal deterrence
  • 20. Apprehension of criminals
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