The Internet Is A Surveillance State Summary

You are under surveillance, no, not by the FBI, at least not hopefully. Large companies such as Google, Facebook, and Apple. Is this a bad thing? Bruce Schneier seems to think so in this Article titled The Internet is a Surveillance State. In this article, Schneier believes that this big data will make all our deepest darkest secrets known to the world. However, it really is not the end of the world. For this article, it has some strong points such as its intro, showing that even the smartest internet users can still be caught. Schneier also goes on to state that this is the end, we’re done. Though he does have a point, the way he goes about saying this doesn’t work to be an argumentative essay.
What Schneier did best was choosing a topic that everyone can relate to. In America, it is hard to function in day to day life without technology. That being said, nearly everyone uses internet of a consistent basis. So, anyone reading this will in some way
What the author does is he lists three people, all of whom practice the highest level of internet security. They are fugitives hiding from the cyber police. The point I assume he is trying to make is that even if you practice this extreme level of anonymity, you can, and will, still be tracked. So, as a normal user of the internet, if I wanted to stay anonymous, there are ways to circumvent it, but in the end, there is no way of being unseen. This is worrying to a point, and it is why this essay is intriguing to me because I feel like there should be an easier way to stay under the radar.
Another thing that I would say makes the article better would be the structure. Schneier gives a topic paragraph about how the internet is a surveillance state then gives a very easy to understand example, which relates to the reader. It makes the whole essay very easy to understand and