Through our group discussion we seemed to have various opinions about surveillance.  No matter where we are and what we are doing we are always being watched/listened to.  This obviously has some positives but also has several negatives.  People should absolutely have their right to their own privacy, which they do.  But technology has advanced in such a way to where we need to purchase things like iPhones and High end laptops to keep up with our own education and progression of the human lifestyle.  Some alternatives to keeping your life more private would be some pretty unrealistic occurrences.  Instead of having a smart phone you would need a flip phone.  If you shouldn’t even bother buying a laptop of you’re worried about people invading your privacy.  But the thing is having a flip phone and no laptop isn’t practical at in 2019.  Which is where these companies have the advantage.  We don’t need these iPhones and Macbooks but at the same time we do.  We need them for several things like work and school and just everyday tasks.  In order to use these devices we are agreeing to a terms of service that we usually don’t read that allows these companies access to our private information.

Personally I don’t have a problem with all of this surveillance.  I think we can benefit from it more than it can hurt us.  It shouldn’t be a big deal to anyone who doesn’t have anything to hide.  All they are trying to do by watching and listening to you is give you advertising for things you would most likely want to buy, and to make sure you aren’t going to do anything illegal.  I would rather have everyone be under surveillance so if someone were to plan on doing something bad it could be stopped before the bad act was committed.