Examples Of Privacy In 1984 By George Orwell

In the novel 1984, the author George Orwell depicted a society where everyone was being constantly observed by cameras and their thoughts were controlled by their leader, Big Brother. Big Brother watches over them to guarantee they are following the rules. He also uses his power to dictate their thought to ensure that the community would do as he wanted. When this novel was first written, in 1948, the thought of something like Big Brother watching and controlling you seemed far-fetched. Reanalyzing this story now, we see that our society, with all of the advancements in technology, is not far off from the dystopian society depicted in 1984. “Many privacy-shattering things have happened to us, some with our cooperation and some not. As a result, the sense of personal privacy is very different today than it was two decades ago.”(pg.21)
There are footprints, which is the information that we knowing leave and is entered in ourselves. Then there are fingerprint, which is the information that we unknowingly give. When someone is making a purchase on a website like Amazon, the footprint would be entering their name, email, and address, but the fingerprint is what they’re ordering or what other items you might of looked at. Amazon can use that information to personalize a marketing campaign specialized for them, and when they look at the recommendations that Amazon formulated, they see things they want to buy. This is Amazon using the recorded information to control people's thoughts and getting them to make more