Big Brother's Always Watching by Jason Lau https://padlet.com/073141244/xow6di5nwacm By: Aashish Kalsi, Armaan Braich, Jason Lau, Sidharth Rajeev en-us 2018-11-30 19:35:11 UTC 2026-03-13 02:50:40 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Ninja.png What is "Big Brother's Always Watching? 073141368 https://padlet.com/073141244/xow6di5nwacm/wish/309953198
Big Brother Is Always Watching You, Does It Matter?


Big Brother is a fictional character created in a novel by George Orwell on June 8, 1949 called 1984. It is about predictions of the future, specifically in 1984. Big Brother is a totalitarian leader of Oceania based in the future who watches all citizens for the greater good with screens. “Big Brother Is Always Watching You”, is now used as a slogan, mainly for abuse of government power.
]]> 2018-11-30 19:38:53 UTC https://padlet.com/073141244/xow6di5nwacm/wish/309953198 Is it morally correct for us to be on surveillance? 349685156 https://padlet.com/073141244/xow6di5nwacm/wish/309957264 The word surveillance comes from a french phrase for “watching over”. Surveillance is used by government for intelligence gathering, prevention of crime or investigation of crime. Surveillance is also used by criminal organization to plan and commit crimes.Depending upon the circumstances, surveillance can be right or wrong, like for instance, if we are walking down a street, or drinking in our car or just hanging out with our friends, we will find that public cameras are a nuisance which is invading into our private space. So it's basically the government taking our rights if they spy on us. Mainly no one would like their secrets to be known and spread around the inner government privately. On the other side, surveillance has prevented numerous crimes,  terrorist activities such as plane crashes, suicide bombings, building bombings,assassination plots of high profile people etc.As you can see surveillance can be both right or wrong depending on the situation .]]> 2018-11-30 19:47:40 UTC https://padlet.com/073141244/xow6di5nwacm/wish/309957264 How much oversight should the government have over its citizens? How much does it have now? 073141368 https://padlet.com/073141244/xow6di5nwacm/wish/309958285 2018-11-30 19:49:55 UTC https://padlet.com/073141244/xow6di5nwacm/wish/309958285 073141368 https://padlet.com/073141244/xow6di5nwacm/wish/309958512  The government in a democratic state’s purpose is to help the citizens, and be in a position of power to oversee and provide assistance. In a situation of an all powerful leader or government watching us, is that too much? Many would say it is, but the government can do so thinking they are helping, which can be beneficial. But, if a government begins surveilling all of its citizens, the government can also be malicious and have intentions to create a totalitarianistic state. Real life examples of countries who do similar things could be North, Korea, China and Russia. Both countries have told citizens that their actions are for the good of the country, but many of the actions committed are very inhumane. ]]> 2018-11-30 19:50:26 UTC https://padlet.com/073141244/xow6di5nwacm/wish/309958512 073141368 https://padlet.com/073141244/xow6di5nwacm/wish/309958939 In my personal opinion, I would definitely be annoyed if someone is invading my privacy but at the same time I feel that if it is done for a good cause, I am all for it as long as the cameras don't invade my bedroom and bathroom.

The video below talks about 10 ways the goverment spies on people. After watching this video i felt like most of the things they mentioned in this video were actually true but also intersting at the same time, as some of the ways they mentioned were ways I never thought the goverment was watching  us with. 

]]> 2018-11-30 19:51:27 UTC https://padlet.com/073141244/xow6di5nwacm/wish/309958939 073141368 https://padlet.com/073141244/xow6di5nwacm/wish/309959641 With technology, there are almost no limitations as to how much the government can oversee its citizens. To learn about you, the government can look through your phone, and that simple check can find anything out about you. Right now, the police cannot search your house, but should they be able to search your phone? Either way both can give you the same amount of information. Technology can also help you track someone through their phone, or through connections to the internet. The most basic use of technology to watch people is have CCTV and cameras set up.

Below is a video which provides an example of information gathering by the police and government.]]> 2018-11-30 19:53:09 UTC https://padlet.com/073141244/xow6di5nwacm/wish/309959641 073141368 https://padlet.com/073141244/xow6di5nwacm/wish/309959992 How far should the government go? Right now, in certain situations the government does use technology to track people or find them because of their crimes. But should people who you only think are suspicious be tracked? Since technology can help you track almost anyone in this day and age, is it okay to track people who are just “shady”? Some would say that is also too far. In reality, this topic is all based on how you think, and how much privacy you think people should have.]]> 2018-11-30 19:53:52 UTC https://padlet.com/073141244/xow6di5nwacm/wish/309959992 073141368 https://padlet.com/073141244/xow6di5nwacm/wish/309960331 If we are overseen by the government and police, crimes will drop and other things may become better, though many other things can change for worse too. Right now, our world is not surveilled and overseen heavily for the most part, but some countries are in situations where the government has no limitations. Usually, countries that have dictatorships, communism in place, or have in the past, observe citizens a great amount. So in conclusion, there are places who have extreme oversight, and most governments have abilities to observe citizens, but don’t as much. In my opinion, the government and police should be able to observe to a certain extent, but not in private buildings like your home or workplace. People value privacy to different extents, so it seems impossible to find a perfect amount of oversight.]]> 2018-11-30 19:54:39 UTC https://padlet.com/073141244/xow6di5nwacm/wish/309960331 How will being watched and overseen affect relationships among citizens? 073141368 https://padlet.com/073141244/xow6di5nwacm/wish/309960574 2018-11-30 19:55:12 UTC https://padlet.com/073141244/xow6di5nwacm/wish/309960574 073141368 https://padlet.com/073141244/xow6di5nwacm/wish/309961488 How are connections between humans going to change if we all have access to everyone's information and everything that they do? Protection has high connection with ease, individual space, comfort, secrecy, security, indentepency and activities (according to one’s personal Dos and Don'ts). In the general sense, absence of the equivalent would mean the inverse, changing individual to individual. On occasion it might wind up terrible for some to see themselves victimized off their protection/privacy.

]]> 2018-11-30 19:57:29 UTC https://padlet.com/073141244/xow6di5nwacm/wish/309961488 073141368 https://padlet.com/073141244/xow6di5nwacm/wish/309962760 Individuals that misuse others would be much more continuous and better at their activity. Things like wholesale fraud and identity theft would nearly be normal place. Then again they would likewise be captured much faster of the fact that the ones stealing wouldn't have the power to keep it private either. 

On the chance that nobody had any security it would simply that the world would be totally transparent. Lying would turn out to be completely old because everybody would know everything.]]> 2018-11-30 20:00:45 UTC https://padlet.com/073141244/xow6di5nwacm/wish/309962760 073141244 https://padlet.com/073141244/xow6di5nwacm/wish/309965319  Huge businesses such as Google and other search engines, collect and store information whenever someone searches something up. For example, Businesses are keeping information such as your location, how much money you make, name, age, and search history. They will sell this information to other companies so that they can advertise their product to the person. Are Google and other businesses keeping too much information about you? This concept is both a good and wrong thing. This is good because consumers will be presented with what they are interested in from different companies. This is also wrong because people would also hate the fact that someone else is storing information about them and wouldn’t want it to get leaked to companies or people. 

There is a video below which goes further in-depth on businesses and information.]]> 2018-11-30 20:07:15 UTC https://padlet.com/073141244/xow6di5nwacm/wish/309965319 073141244 https://padlet.com/073141244/xow6di5nwacm/wish/309966217 There are many other trustworthy search engines that can be used without your information being leaked. DuckDuckGo is an example of a search engine that you can trust. This search engine will not keep or store information about anyone and is more safe to use than most search engines.]]> 2018-11-30 20:09:38 UTC https://padlet.com/073141244/xow6di5nwacm/wish/309966217 Definitions and Related Words 073141368 https://padlet.com/073141244/xow6di5nwacm/wish/310593739 Money related crime: Without protection, anybody could access your bank accounts and personal financial portfolio. On the off chance that you have a considerable measure of cash, you won't have it for long. Stealing will be commonplace.

Wholesale fraud: You couldn't feel secure making financing transitions on the web. Anybody could see you at whatever point you make a financial exchange and access your online bank accounts, which will drain dry rapidly.

Rumors: Everything you've ever said about someone is easy to access. Revenge would be so much easier to get.
]]> 2018-12-03 19:03:28 UTC https://padlet.com/073141244/xow6di5nwacm/wish/310593739 073141244 https://padlet.com/073141244/xow6di5nwacm/wish/310605367 In my opinion, the fact that businesses are storing information from many people should come to an end. I believe this because, hackers in the future may hack the information that these businesses are storing. It also wouldn’t be ok if Google and other search engines in the future begin to use this information to sell it to untrustworthy people and companies just to make money. This can lead to a bigger problem as people would know your location and information and use this in a wrong way. This would be taking it too far and shouldn’t ever happen in the future. Many people are already concerned about this issue and I believe businesses should stop storing information as soon as possible so there will be low chances of information being leaked.       ]]> 2018-12-03 19:23:51 UTC https://padlet.com/073141244/xow6di5nwacm/wish/310605367 Do Businesses Know Too Much? 073141244 https://padlet.com/073141244/xow6di5nwacm/wish/310617066 2018-12-03 19:43:02 UTC https://padlet.com/073141244/xow6di5nwacm/wish/310617066