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A Comparison Of Big Brother In 1984 And USA

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.The greatest similarity I see between Big Brother in 1984 and the US president is the control of information. . In both 1984 and U.S.A, the leaders are using the technology to spy on their citizen for example in 1984 they used the telscerean and in the USA they use NSA

Recently there was a article about the NSA. The article talked about how the NSA gives us little to no privacy when it comes to electronics in the US. These information was recorde just for the government the government hav request the NSA to recorde the people cellphone calls and send it to them. The National Security Agency is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world, according to top-secret documents and interviews with U.S.

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