Preservation of Privacy

Government is different from society. Government controls the actions and thoughts of society and the people in it take care of the rest. As a person apart of society its normal to want to have privacy or even think you do. In other parts of the world there is constant monitoring of the citizens and limited freedoms. If the people of the more developed countries thought that the life they had was better than what others had they would accept their life as the norm. Applying this to the twentieth-century standards preserving the privacy of society and all of its members is critical to have a stable government.

"Nonsense. The earth is as old as we are, no older. How could it be older? Nothing exists except through human consciousness."

"In memory. Very well, then. We, the Party, control all records, and we control all memories. Then we control the past, do we not?"

In today's world with the use of the amendments society feel entitled to their privacy but the government who provides the cameras for their security systems and systems that have access to their passwords can break that barrier as easy as a kid can steal a piece of candy when their parents aren't looking. The purpose for giving the government that power is to keep the information from the rest of society. The government is society. They're regular people that you wouldn't know the difference if they didn't have a badge. So the question is why trust people that is like you but instead went through different schooling, with your information? Its because society have the right to speak and protest and go to court if they misuse that power. This right given by the government gives them confidence that they themselves control their privacy. So society comes up with a kind of invisible bond among each other. That preserving privacy is critical and I agree. Without their privacy being protected they'll be enlightened to the real answer of who really controls their privacy.