How to avoid surveillance … with the phone in your pocket

This is a TedTalk that focuses on explaining the surveillance technologies wired into cellphones.  Privacy activist, Christopher Soghoian, says that phones were originally designed to record calls and information.  “Today’s communication systems are under attack by states and large corporations with sheer endless capabilities” (Schanzenbach 2014).  He talks about how strong encryption technology is being built into products so that phone calls and text messages cannot be easily wiretapped (Soghoian).  He is describing the good things happening with surveillance technology control currently (Soghoian).  This is apparently causing the government to be upset.  Government officials want to be able to hack personal technology more easily but it is a good thing that itis getting more difficult for them.  ThisTedTalk is relative because it shows that the government does have some surveillance over citizens.  It also is causing problems like it did in BlackMirror because if the government is upset that they do not have enough power to hack into people’s personal devices, then they are obviously power hungry and need to be slowed down a little.