2) It's becoming easier and easier to record anything, or everything, that you see. This opens up fascinating and alarming possibilities. "The Economist, November 16, 2013 Discuss this statement in light of recent media concern over surveillance and privacy issues. Include government surveillance and social media. For example, the young woman who accused the Florida State quarterback of rape James Winston was identified by football fans on social media and nasty anonymous things were published about her. Almost all major international human rights agreements protect the right of individuals to be free from unjustified surveillance national constitutional or legal provisions, protecting the privacy of communications. Most democratic countries usually have the ability to carry out interception of telephone and digital communications, but only after law enforcement or intelligence agencies have obtained the approval of a judge, and only during investigations of serious crimes. However, government agencies, especially in America, continue to push for increased surveillance capabilities, particularly as technologies change and move in the direction of social media. Communications surveillance has expanded to the Internet and digital communications. law enforcement agencies, such as the NSA, have required Internet service providers and telecommunications companies to monitor user traffic. Many of these activities are carried out on ambiguous legal grounds and remain unknown to the general public, although recent media concern over these surveillance and privacy issues is creating a trending agenda. Today, we still don't know how to deal with privacy on the Internet. Legislation is being formulated... middle of paper... has not been blamed for her late-night memory lapses, but the fact remains that social media has played an important role in influencing public opinion on who he was right and who was wrong. In the public eye and on social media, the young woman was a liar and Winston was a saint. Perhaps Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said it best when he said that privacy is no longer a “social norm.” Virtually everyone has a smartphone and everyone has social media. We continue to voluntarily disclose private information, and private information that we do not voluntarily disclose is still pulled from our accounts. Technology certainly makes these things possible. However, it is urgently necessary to enact laws and regulations to protect against what we do not personally disclose. It's disturbing to think that we are living in 1984 in the 21st century.