George Orwell said it best in his novel 1984; “Big Brother Is Watching you”. He wrote these words in 1949. Who would have thought that fifty years from then it is becoming reality instead of fiction? It now seems as if technology makes the planet revolve. I will discuss certain aspects of the issue over privacy rights in conjunction with technology. In this paper I will prove that the government, businesses, and individuals have access to almost …showed first 75 words of 1321 total…

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