“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 the advantages of this development outweigh the disadvantages?”

It is true that more and more

technology

is being used to track

people

's actions, and many

people

do not realise that

this

is happening.

Although

this

development could be beneficial to companies and the government, I personally believe that the drawbacks of

this

advancement outweigh the advantages

due to

the probability of detrimental issues that can be caused by monitoring. On the one hand, some

people

argue that monitoring should be encouraged because it helps the government to guarantee the safety of citizens.

For example

, CCTV installed on the street could be useful to reduce the incidence of crime

such

as theft and robbery by monitoring.

However

, the problem is that

this

technology

is

also

very fragile to the danger of hacking, so many cyber criminals are occurring these days. In South Korea,

for instance

, the rate of crimes utilised by monitor

technology

surged recently, becoming a serious social problem. As

this

example shows, the improvement of

technology

exerts a negative influence on society.

In addition

, unnecessary supervision by using

technology

would make

people

uncomfortable. It is a well-known fact that many companies are monitoring their customer behaviours on social network services and smartphones to promote their products to the right targets.

This

aggressive marketing method by using monitored data has made

people

exposed to bothersome advertising.

Last

but not least, there are many privacy issues caused by the

technology

.

For example

,

due to

the evolution of social media citizen's personal information is uploaded to the Internet without their permission. In conclusion, even though the development of

technology

brought many benefits to our society,

on the other hand

, it is undeniable that there are many more detrimental effects of

this

development.

Therefore

, I firmly believe that much should be done by the government to deal with

this

danger of

technology

.