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In 1984, Orwell warns us about how government power can lie to us, and how there are many ways that our privacy can be invaded and stolen using technology.

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Artifact 2: North Korea lies to everyone, and they've been doing it for years.

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Artifact 2: North Korea lies to everyone, and they've been doing it for years.

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North Korea is a country that is famous for treating the people who live there very poorly. They don't have a way to access places outside of the Country, which leads them to believe what they are told by their leaders.

However, North Korea lies to the people who live there, as well as to the rest of the world. It claims that it has created many different things, such as a way to make people taller, or a cure for diseases, such as AIDS. These are all nothing but lies told by political figures. actions such as this lead the people who live there to be in a somewhat brainwashed state.

This is similar to 1984, as in the book, the civilians are mostly unaware of what the political power/Big Brother is really doing. Those who do know about the government are usually taken away and tortured,  or they are vaporized.

We should all be careful about what we choose to believe, because we can never know if it is the truth or not.

This video describes many of North Korea's lies.

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Top 10 RIDICULOUS Lies North Korea Has Told the World

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Top 10 RIDICULOUS Lies North Korea Has Told the World // Subscribe: http://goo.gl/Q2kKrD // TIMESTAMPS BELOW ----------------------- CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF WATCHMOJO WITH OUR SPECIAL EDITION MAGAZINE, LINKS BELOW! There are some hilarious lies North Koreans are made to believe.

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Artifact 3: Facebook Messenger steals your information, and can record you

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Artifact 3: Facebook Messenger steals your information, and can record you

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Facebook Messenger, allows you to send messages your friends on Facebook.

However, what the app doesn't tell you, is that by downloading it, you are agreeing to letting the app access many parts of your phone. By just downloading and opening the app, Facebook Messenger is immediately allowed access to your camera, phone number, and your phone contacts as well. This is all done without even giving you an agreement to read. They can also record calls you make using the app.

In 1984, Winston is worried about thinking for himself, because he is always being watched. This app is another version of this.

We should all worry about technology being used to steal our information. It may lead to new ways for the government to spy on us.

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Facebook has become such a familiar household name that when many of us were forced into downloading the messenger app onto our phones, we didn't think to check out the terms and conditions.

'It's Facebook,' we might have thought. 'If they were going to do anything weird and out there the media would have reported it straight away.'

Except we didn't... well, not until a billion people had already downloaded the social media app.

One savvy Facebook user, Sam Fiorella, decided he would delve into the T&Cs, and what he found is pretty damn terrifying.

Apparently, Facebook can take photos, send texts and even record calls, all without your permission. Meaning you'll have no control over what it's doing behind the scenes whatsoever.

Even weirder, and perhaps even more unsettling, is that they can read personal data on your phone about both yourself and your contacts, and then pass the info on.

Bit scary, huh?

It's worth noting that many apps contain Ts&Cs like these, but rarely, if ever, have a need to use them.

Still, Sam shared a list of the worst offending Ts&Cs and, while there is the ability to fiddle around yourself to some extent with the security settings, it's still slightly sinister.
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Facebook Messenger app can take personal data from your phone

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Facebook has become such a familiar household name that when many of us were forced into downloading the messenger app onto our phones, we didn't think to check out the terms and conditions. 'It's Facebook,' we might have thought. 'If they were going to do anything weird and out there the media would have reported it straight away.'

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Artifact 4: Apple's Privacy Policy requires access to your location, as well as what you do on your phone

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Artifact 4: Apple's Privacy Policy requires access to your location, as well as what you do on your phone

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When you purchase an iPhone. you always have to agree to a long list of terms and conditions as a part of it's privacy policy. By agreeing, you give Apple permission to monitor what you do on your phone, including your location, internet searches, and other activity.

This is very similar to 1984, which is filled with ways ways for the government to spy on people, and to invade their privacy. Only in this case, it's to monitor you, not to watch you through a television screen.

Orwell is warning us about this, because technology and surveillance is always improving, and that may lead to more issues about our privacy.

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Your privacy is important to Apple and always has been.

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Artifact 5: Snapchat stores all of your photos in a secret database, and you can't normally see it

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Artifact 5: Snapchat stores all of your photos in a secret database, and you can't normally see it

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Even though Snapchat claims that photos you send are erased forever, they actually aren't. They are kept in a secret database on the app, which cannot be viewed through normal means.

This is relatable to 1984, because in the book there are many things which are not as they seem. An example of this is Winston's job at the ministry of truth, where he helps to rewrite parts of history, and change certain facts. This is an example of false truth,  as Winston changes what the people living in the society accept as fact.

Orwell is warning us about this, because it is happening in our world today, in many ways.

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You send a private photo to a friend who views it for a few seconds before it disappears forever, right?

Wrong!

Even after Snapchat admitted photos sent using the popular app don't evaporate into the ether after all, experts say users still don't grasp how difficult is it to entirely erase something from the Internet.

Snapchat Settles With FTC Over Claims it Deceived Users

"It looks like it's gone," security expert Nico Sell told ABC News. "If you don't understand the underlying technology of the Internet, and aren't thinking about what is going on behind the scenes, it looks like it disappeared."

But most of the time, your "deleted" Instagram snaps or Facebook posts -- or possibly Snapchats -- are still lurking on a server somewhere, said Sell, founder of another private messaging app, Wickr.

"Even when something is deleted from a device or a computer, it doesn't completely delete," she explained. "Your SMS - if you were to delete a text, I could still get it off the phone. It's in the trash."

Snapchat agreed to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday that it deceived users about how private their photos really were. The company admitted that there were roundabout ways users could save a friend's photo -- which is supposed to "self-destruct" about a few seconds -- by downloading third-party apps or taking screenshots.

The FTC also accused Snapchat of secretly collecting private information from users through its "Find Friends" feature, which accesses contact information.

Snapchat said it would be more forthcoming about privacy with users.

The company says it deletes "snaps" from its servers after the message is opened, but admits people can still take screenshots of messages.

When that happens, Snapchat sends the sender a notification.

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What Really Happens to Your Deleted Snapchat Photos

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You send a private photo to a friend who views it for a few seconds before it disappears forever, right? Wrong! Even after Snapchat admitted photos sent using the popular app don't evaporate into the ether after all, experts say users still don't grasp how difficult is it to entirely erase something from the Internet.

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Artifact 1: Schools and the government ignore/don't teach about a genocide of Indians

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Artifact 1: Schools and the government ignore/don't teach about a genocide of Indians

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Between 1846 and 1870, there was a giant decrease of the Indian population in California. This occurred due to diseases, as well starvation. This was the governments fault, as state officials caused a majority of these deaths.

However, even though this was an important historical event, the government, as well as some schools, refuse to acknowledge this as a genocide. This is incorrect, as this event fits perfectly under the definition of a genocide.

This is an example of how the government can change information, and how it can be different from what actually happened.

This is like 1984, when Winston uses a speakwrite to change events that have occurred. This is just another way that Orwell is warning us about the danger of False Truth.

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Between 1846 and 1870, California's Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Diseases, dislocation and starvation caused many of these deaths, but the near-annihilation of the California Indians was not the unavoidable result of two civilizations coming into contact for the first time. It was genocide, sanctioned and facilitated by California officials.

Neither the U.S. government nor the state of California has acknowledged that the California Indian catastrophe fits the two-part legal definition of genocide set forth by the United Nations Genocide Convention in 1948. According to the convention, perpetrators must first demonstrate their "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such." Second, they must commit one of the five genocidal acts listed in the convention: "Killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."

California's Legislature first convened in 1850, and one of its initial orders of business was banning all Indians from voting, barring those with "one-half of Indian blood" or more from giving evidence for or against whites in criminal cases, and denying Indians the right to serve as jurors. California legislators later banned Indians from serving as attorneys. In combination, these laws largely shut Indians out of participation in and protection by the state legal system. This amounted to a virtual grant of impunity to those who attacked them.

That same year, state legislators endorsed unfree Indian labor by legalizing white custody of Indian minors and Indian prisoner leasing. In 1860, they extended the 1850 act to legalize "indenture" of "any Indian." These laws triggered a boom in violent kidnappings while separating men and women during peak reproductive years, both of which accelerated the decline of the California Indian population. Some Indians were treated as disposable laborers. One lawyer recalled: "Los Angeles had its slave mart [and] thousands of honest, useful people were absolutely destroyed in this way." Between 1850 and 1870, L.A.'s Indian population fell from 3,693 to 219.

It is not an exaggeration to say that California legislators also established a state-sponsored killing machine. California governors called out or authorized no fewer than 24 state militia expeditions between 1850 and 1861, which killed at least 1,340 California Indians. State legislators also passed three bills in the 1850s that raised up to $1.51 million to fund these operations - a great deal of money at the time - for past and future anti-Indian militia operations. By demonstrating that the state would not punish Indian killers, but instead reward them, militia expeditions helped inspire vigilantes to kill at least 6,460 California Indians between 1846 and 1873.

The U.S. Army and their auxiliaries also killed at least 1,680 California Indians between 1846 and 1873. Meanwhile, in 1852, state politicians and U.S. senators stopped the establishment of permanent federal reservations in California, thus denying California Indians land while exposing them to danger.

State endorsement of genocide was only thinly veiled. In 1851, California Gov. Peter Burnett declared that "a war of extermination will continue to be waged ... until the Indian race becomes extinct." In 1852, U.S. Sen. John Weller - who became California's governor in 1858 - went further. He told his colleagues in the Senate that California Indians "will be exterminated before the onward march of the white man," arguing that "the interest of the white man demands their extinction."

Beyond premeditated, systematic killings of California Indians, other acts of genocide proliferated too. Many rapes and beatings occurred, and these meet the U.N. Genocide Convention's definition of "causing serious bodily harm" to victims on the basis of their group identity and with the intent to destroy the group. The sustained military and civilian policy of demolishing California Indian villages and their food stores while driving Indians into inhospitable mountain regions amounted to "deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part." Because malnutrition and exposure predictably lowered the birthrate, some state and federal decision-makers also appear guilty of "imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group."

Finally, the state of California, slave raiders and federal officials were all involved in "forcibly transferring children of the group to another group." Thousands of California Indian children suffered such forced transfers. By breaking up families and communities, forced removals constituted "imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group." In effect, the state legalized abduction and enslavement of Indian minors; slavers exploited indenture laws and federal officials prevented U.S. Army intervention to protect the victims.

The issue of genocide in California poses explosive political, economic and educational questions for the state, California's tribes and individual California Indians. It is up to them - not academics like me - to determine the best way forward.

Will state officials tender public apologies, as Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush did in the 1980s for the relocation and internment of some 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II? Should state officials offer compensation, along the lines of the more than $1.6 billion Congress paid to 82,210 of these Japanese Americans and their heirs? Might California officials decrease or altogether eliminate their cut of California Indians' annual gaming revenues ($7.3 billion in 2014) as a way of paying reparations? Should the state return control to California Indian communities of state lands where genocidal events took place? Should the state stop commemorating the supporters and perpetrators of this genocide, including Burnett, Kit Carson and John C. Frémont? Will the genocide against California Indians join the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust in public school curricula and public discourse?

These are crucial questions. What's beyond doubt is that the state and the federal government should acknowledge the genocide that took place in California.

Decency demands that even long after the deaths of the victims, we preserve the truth of what befell them, so that their memory can be honored and the repetition of similar crimes deterred. Justice demands that even long after the perpetrators have vanished, we document the crimes that they and their advocates have too often concealed or denied. Finally, historical veracity demands that we acknowledge this state-sponsored catastrophe in all its varied aspects and causes, in order to better understand formative events in both California Indian and California state history.

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It's time to acknowledge the genocide of California's Indians

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Between 1846 and 1870, California's Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Diseases, dislocation and starvation caused many of these deaths, but the near-annihilation of the California Indians was not the unavoidable result of two civilizations coming into contact for the first time. It was genocide, sanctioned and facilitated by California officials.