Big Brother's Cell Phone

1. Nikki Swartz's view point on cell phones is that America is unaware of the fact that their cell phone providers can pin point their exact location, and store that location. They can then give this information to the government to watch-over suspects. However, recently it is getting much more difficult for prosecutors to get this information because it would be ruled unlawful. Terry Allen uses the Verizon Wireless commercials as an image that Verizon is a "Big Brother", an idea from George Orwells book, 1984. Allen also talksBoth om companies are not eager to advertise the trackig capabilities of the phones.

2. Both of these authors share the common idea about how because of capitalism, cell phone companies would be more than eager to sell the tracking information to prosecuters. They also share the idea on how that this could give the government the power of being able to watch our every move and know exactly where we are.

3. The two authors have very few differences in their essays, one of those is that Terry Allen talks about the Bush administration in his essay. He uses the fact that the Bush administration said that time lost justifying a warrant can mean dangerous delays. He uses this to relate to his essay by helping the side that prosecutors should be allowed to use this information because waiting for a warrant can allow enough time for the suspect to strike again.

4. I believe that the government should be able to use the tracking information, but only with suspects. I don't agree with the idea of the government being able to watch everyone to protect us, because I don't see how that would do anything good. How could watching over innocent people help protect innocent people? Unless they can see the future and know who is going to commit a crime, they won't be able to prevent any crimes by using this information.