Tracking and monitoring technology Nowadays technology is increasingly being used to monitor what people are saying or doing (for example, through cell phone tracking and security cameras). In many cases, the people being monitored are unaware that this is happening. Do you think the advantages of this development outweigh the disadvantages? In the nowadays world more and more various devices are used to control or inspect people, but for the most people this process remains unnoticed, so they are usually unaware of being observed. People have different opinions on whether advantages outweigh the disadvantages, but as far as I’m concerned, although there is an ethical problem, but in the matter of safety, monitoring definitely has more positive than negative aspects. People who are against using monitoring technologies usually appeal to the fact that observation especially if people are unaware of it is extremely unethical; in addition it infringes personal privacy. I suppose nobody will be happy to find out that our posts or even private messages on the social media are monitored. The above drawbacks are quite important, but I still believe positive sides of these technologies are prevailing over the negative. GPS and other tracking technologies can come in handy for example if your cell phone or suitcase was accidentally left on the subway, your stolen or lost phone can be found by using an application and tracking technology, you can make it ring, lock it or even delete all the information, as for luggage security cameras may help to find it. Furthermore, monitoring is very useful in cases of emergency, when people are lost or cannot name their location directly, for example if they are kidnapped. Such inventions as security cameras and eavesdropping devices can be used as great crime-fighting tools; these are making the investigation progress faster and more effective. In fact, long experience proved this to be true as a lot of crimes were solved with the help of ATM cameras, supermarket CCTV etc. In conclusion, I want to admit that there are certain problems related to these technologies, but positives seem to far overweigh the negatives, especially when a situation needs an immediate action to deal with it.