Prompt: Nowadays technology is increasingly being used to monitor what people are saying and doing (for example, through cellphone tracking and security cameras). In many cases, the people being monitored are unaaware that this is happening. Do you think the advantages of this development outweigh the disadvantages?

In the present era when the technology is developing rapidly, there are many methods can be used to watch over anything done by people. For instance, cellular phone tracking and security cameras, and mostly people do not acknowledge of being watched over. I am convinced that such technology development and implementation, as a coin, also carries two sides with them. Ċ Firstly, the spying activities are common for police or other state intelligence organisations. But of course it is their duty to get secret information to protect a country and its citizen. For example, the whole world wanted to find Bin Ladden and brought him to justice as he was proved to be responsible for terrorism a decade ago. All means of technology was used in order to trace his whereabouts. After some time, after endless CCTVs surveillance and with the benefit of other devices, the most wanted man in the world was captured and the world felt secure. Ċ However, some people tend to oppose this monitoring over their activities. They feel that their precious privacy are disturbed and object with the thoughts of, say, their activities on the internet are captured or interfered by a particular party. People feel uncomfortable when they are under the assumptions that someone is peeking at their routines. Ċ I certainly get the point of people who want to keep their privacy a sacred zone. However, I am even far more concerned about all of our safety. From my perspective, it is rationally acceptable to get a scratch on your skin in order to save a life.