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Similarities Between 1984 And Personal Privacy Up For Grabs

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Freedom is a common goal that all of humanity strives for as it liberates one’s choices and actions. Privacy is a way of being free as it provides security from all people. Governments want to eliminate freedom by slowly abandoning the rights to privacy to maintain power over citizens. Those who want control deceive others with false information to easily influence beliefs. This causes people to remain ignorant to society’s rules as they would rather choose a satisfactory life than a free one. Executing these rules are done by taking advantage of new technology. Both George Orwell’s 1984 and Shaw C. Mitchell’s “Personal Privacy Up For Grabs,” explain how a forceful government can strip away the freedom of a whole society. Authorities suppress
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