Rosenthal 1!

Dayna Rosenthal
Professor Kufs
English 115
24 November 2015
Annotated Bibliography
Bilton, Nick. "The Pros and Cons of a Surveillance Society."
<i>Bits.blogs.nytimes.com</i>. The New York Times Company, 16 July 2013. Web. 23 Nov.
2015. This article starts out with three seemingly unrelated topics: Prism (surveillance program
for the national security agency, the death of Trayvon Martin, and Google Glass (wearable
computers that record everything). The author starts off with stating both sides of the arguments
of government surveillance and whether it is too restrained or too outrageous. Throughout the
article the author makes it unclear whether he is for or against government surveillance but in his
conclusion makes it apparent that he is against. Though he is against, he made good arguments to
question both sides.
Boycott, Owen. "Surveillance." Theguardian,com. N.p., 7 June 2014. Web. 17 Nov. 2015.
This article discusses the situation of social media surveillance and its legality. In the United
Kingdom, their government has completely admitted that they monitor social media searches,
emails, and so called private online chat rooms. Their argument for internet interception: to
protect the people of the world by looking into private internet findings to detect harm. In the
article, it is stated that even the United States can monitor the UK internet using the monitoring
program, Tempora.

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Collins, Katie. "Government Pays Companies to Monitor You on Social Media (Wired
UK)." <i>Wired UK</i>. N.p., 8 June 2015. Web. 23 Nov. 2015. In June, the United Kingdom
government went public with their social media surveillance. In this article, Collins starts off
with the question of what is the government looking for and why? Throughout her essay she
proves to understand the reasons behind government surveillance on social media and shows her
opinion with facts.
Maasik, Sonia, and S. Craig Watkins. "Chapter 5 The Cloud." <i>Signs of Life In the
USA</i>. Ed. Jack Solomon. Boston and New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2006. 393-402. Print.
This essay is about the internet being with us at all times. We can access anything from our
mobile phone, tablet, or laptop from anywhere with wifi. Watkins makes it a point to bring up the
positivity and negativity of easily accessible internet.
Mirk, Sarah. "How Social Media Makes Us Feel Less Upset about Surveillance." <i>The
Daily Dot</i>. N.p., 19 Mar. 2015. Web. 23 Nov. 2015. Mirk starts off her article with a quoted
question from Julia Angwin, an investigative reporter, which stated: is privacy becoming a
luxury or a good? Mirk brings her ideas in the article and backs them up with statements from
Angwin. As the article progresses we see that she is on board with internet surveillance and
believes it is for the good of her country.