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Topic: Surveillance and Privacy

Purpose: To invite.

Specific purpose: To invite my audience to know the impact of surveillance on privacy

Thesis: In this speech I will discuss mass surveillance and its impact on our privacy.

Introduction:

Surveillance: is the monitoring of the behavior, activities, or other changing information, usually of people for the purpose of influencing, managing, directing, or protecting them. This can include observation from a distance by means of electronic equipment or interception of electronically transmitted information (such as internet traffic  or phone calls); and it can include simple, relatively no- or low-technology methods such as human intelligence agents and postal inspection.

I. Attention: How would you react if you know that you are being watch and followed ?

II. Reveal topic: Well, that is true. And I will discuss with you what is Surveillance and its impact on privacy.

III. Credibility: I will be explaining some facts about Mass Surveillance.

IV. Preview: Mass surveillance interferes with our privacy, which limits our freedom. However, that’s only half the truth.

Body:

I. What is surveillance?

A. Surveillance in general is: conducting close observations of an individual or a group.

B. However; I am interested in Mass Surveillance: “which is the subjection of a population or significant component of a group to indiscriminate monitoring. It involves a systematic interference with people's right to privacy.”

· (transition) But with this kind of surveillance everyone’s privacy is in danger.

II. Do we need Surveillance? And does it interfere with the individual’s Privacy?

A. Pros of surveillance

i. Through Surveillance Gov’s can track down the communications of suspected criminals and terrorist. Which may save a lot of lives.

ii. By Surveillance, a government could save a lot money as well as reducing number of crimes.

iii. It reduces the police’s work, for example instead of having 100 police officer to cover up the streets, an installation of a good Surveillance system and 10 officers will do the work even better.

B. The impact of surveillance on Privacy (Cons of Surveillance)

i. The surveillance system is stronger than we might thought, “When it comes to spying on our phones, government authorities can now get access to data on everyone within a specific geographical area around a cell tower through bulk access to data held by mobile phone companies”

ii. “Mass surveillance will be applied beyond communications surveillance. As we move towards ‘smart’ devices and cities, more and more of our activities will be collected and analyzed”

iii. The fact that those data are saved, raise the fear that it may be misused or accessible by other parties.

· transition) All that lead to the question: What is the value of privacy?

III. Privacy of individual in daily life V.s. Privacy of individual among the Nation’s security

A. In the Daily life it is An Important element that should be valued and totally respected

B. But when it comes the Nation’s security I believe that it can’t be valued, because it might be harmful to the victim or the nation.

(transition) Now that’s my thought on privacy when it comes to national security.

III. I want to hear from you how you feel about this topic?

A. Would you consider giving up some of your freedom for the sake of security?

B. Do you agree that If you are doing the correct action, then no need for privacy.

(transition) After hearing from you

Conclusion:

· I. In their book “Privacy Impact Assessment” David Wright and Paul Hert said:” Society will never understand the importance of surveillance in relation to other matters such as national security.”

· II. I believe that If you are doing the correct action, then no need for privacy. Especially, when we know that the surveillance system is not associating the information detected to names and individuals.

References:

· Wright, David, and Hert, Paul. De. Privacy Impact Assessment. Dordrecht [etc.: Springer, 2012. Print.