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?

These days, we are surrounded by technological tools of each type, size and dimension.
While
we are using them, they track everything we are doing and they have the access to personal data
such
as telephone numbers, photos and even products that we bought. Very often, some
people
do not have
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about these devices, so they do not know that
this
is happening. In
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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
use
of
app
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as Google Maps or
Waze
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we would not have one of the most significant advantages of nowadays, we
use
them every day to go to work or new restaurants or
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where we are never been. It is true that
this
kind of app
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our location and
use
to track where we are, but some
people
cannot live
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. On the Internet we can find all we need
such
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
this
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
that is
probably that we will spend more money on those items, and
this
is one of the scariest disadvantages because in some
people
this
can provoke the compulsory shopping syndrome. Another disadvantage is that very often our devices have one photo
cameras
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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,
for
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you can put a sticker on your webcam so they cannot take videos
of
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pictures of you and try to not share your position when it is possible.
People
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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.
To conclude
, in
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also
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what we have to be aware
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our security.
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