{"id":106,"date":"2015-01-26T21:54:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T02:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/?p=106"},"modified":"2015-01-27T14:54:07","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T19:54:07","slug":"the-united-states-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/2015\/01\/26\/the-united-states-surveillance\/","title":{"rendered":"The United States&#8217; Surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/files\/2015\/01\/data-surveilllance.png\" rel=\"lightbox[106]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-108\" src=\"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/files\/2015\/01\/data-surveilllance.png\" alt=\"data surveilllance\" width=\"180\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a>Constantly, we are monitored and observed by the United States government. The government has a complex surveillance system that controls the flow of information and data through the usage of flagging people and intercepting communication messages through the internet or postal service. In <em>Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/em> by George Orwell, one can see a government have total control over a society through surveillance. The government utilizes electronic media to manipulate the citizens through the censoring of information. The censorship of information involved destroying knowledge that existed and creating new information to control the population. They eliminated any information that would disagree with the way the government rules, since it could fuel or potentially start a revolution. Also, the government \u201ckept those watched subordinate by means of uncertainty\u201d (Lyon 60). In other words, the citizens always had a possibility that someone was watching them or reading their minds. They had a certain pressure to be always be in line with the government because they never knew when Big Brother was watching.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the surveillance utilized in Orwell\u2019s book is similar to how our government controls the flow of information today. The United States government utilizes the identification of code or key words that alerts the government of potential threats. Also, the government can listen in on phone calls and intercept text messages to get rid of potential threats. In addition, the government has a detailed account of every single citizen through the categorization of search engines. Clearly, the government in Orwell\u2019s book is very similar to our government today.<\/p>\n<p>David Lyon, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/documents\/lyon-from-big-brother-to-electric-panopticon.pdf\">From Big Brother to the Electronic Panopticon<\/a>\u201d from <em>The Electronic Eye: The Rise of Surveillance Society <\/em>(1994)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Constantly, we are monitored and observed by the United States government. The government has a complex surveillance system that controls the flow of information and data through the usage of flagging people and intercepting communication messages through the internet or postal service. In Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, one can see a government have total &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/2015\/01\/26\/the-united-states-surveillance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The United States&#8217; Surveillance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-group-1","category-readers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}