Nowhere to hide

Have you ever caught a moment, when a cold eye of camera is watching you? That unpleasant feeling on your back, like somebody is staring at you. There, right behind your shoulder. You can't work properly, smb is watching you. You can't relax, smb is watching you. There is always smb, who is sitting behind this camera and watching you. Only you. You're afraid, that you've done something wrong and smb knows. What if you said too much in a private conversation? Aren't these questions familiar to everyone of us?

What a paranoia. Well, now let's play a game. I'll make this phobia worse. Google your name. Done? What do you see? How many photos, that facebook promised to keep in secret are here, how many contacts, how many information? Okay, what do you think about your internet privacy now? (you can pretend, that things, you've seen are much worse, than they are, I need it for atmosphere of this text, please-please-please).

Let's imagine, that you're very careful on the Net, you don't add any information, just listen to music and look for information for school reports. But what about streets, shops, school? Thousands of modern gadgets like cameras, microchips, were made just in last 5 years. Sometimes ways, which help government to control us, are too creepy; they don't make you feel safe, they just make us panic and protest against more and more.

Of course it's okay to install cameras in public places, it helps to reduce amount of crimes, they also can help to prove your innocence, when you're suspected. But nowadays, we can understand the phrase “You're being watched everywhere” literally. Cameras are often installed in places, where they are absolutely useless: changing rooms, toilets, hospital chambers and so on. I'm sure, that people, who do such things, have no rights to do it, they just don't want to understand, that everyone needs private space.

So, to sum up, people need a compromise (as always). It will be suitable for us and for the government. But if everything continues like it is now, then wasn't George Orwell right?