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Science and technology Surveillance and the media a) Take one element from each column and form sentences on surveillance and the media. Add your own ideas if you like. Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 to analyse to carry out to collect to gather to intercept to process to spark to tighten to unscramble data on a debate on a domestic surveillance programme on (encrypted) messages on a full-body scan on information on security on airline passengers electronic communication federal power internet activities phone calls privacy social networking websites suspicious activities the surveillance of citizens unreasonable searches 1. Their job was to analyse data on suspicious activities on government servers. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. b) Fill in suitable words into the text below. Make sure you use the correct form. 1 detail invasion to accuse sb. of sth. address to articulate sth. boundary to obtain sth. to promote sth. to publish sth. record subscriber uncomfortable You are the editor of a local newspaper. A reporter on your staff comes to you having obtained (1) (by legal means) one of the following: • police (2) of arrests for drunken driving • the personal (3) of the employees of local clinics which perform abortions • the (4) list of a survivalist magazine with pronounced racist overtones • the donors to a group that (5) gay rights • the names of husbands (6) of infidelity in divorce suits, along with the identities of their alleged lovers • (7) of homes where pit bulls are kept The reporter proposes to (8) the names and home addresses and map them on a large graphic, all part of an article on “The drunks/abortionists/racists/gays/cheats/scary dogs next door”. Some of these lists might strike you as fair game. Others probably make you (9) or indignant. You might find that the tricky part is (10) why: what are the (11) between a public service and an (12) of privacy? c) Write a short paragraph that answers the question at the end of the text. 89 18 Science and technology Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv