Phones In George Orwell's 1984, By George Orwell

In today’s society we are constantly being controlled from the government without them using any consent from the people. Some methods in which the government controls the citizens are on cellphones and computers. Some techniques that the government does to control its citizens is by monitoring phone calls, locations, bank accounts, and many other ways in which they can control the people electronically. In the book 1984, by George Orwell, it shows and gives many references that can be connected in today's era on how the government is trying to control its citizens. As technology continues to grow, their will be more methods for the government to control its citizens.
In the book 1984, there is a such thing where they use telescreens as an example for security cameras that are used to control the citizens of the country. In the book, the telescreens are used against the citizens in order to catch anyone who is goes the opposite of Big Brother. The telescreens monitor the conversations that people have and the
That’s My Tracker by Peter Maass and Megha Rajagopalan,” they talk about how the government controls people's cell phones, and how cellphone’s should have a name change because of the circumstances. In the article they speak on how cellphones are tracking devices for the government, how they can control all the data that people use. This example from the article goes back to 1984 and the telescreens because, the government of Oceania use the telescreens to have full control of the people of the country. In the article, “That's Not My Phone. That's My Tracker,” it also gives some insight that with cellphones, the government can also monitor phone calls, credit cards, emails, and monitor locations. This is a very similar illustration of telescreens because they both can have full control of the residents of the country because they can be controlled without them having any sort of consent from