An individual is able to determine this simply by looking at the environment that V was in and comparing it to the environment that Snowden is in. the surveillance is the people themselves, whereas in our modern age with Snowden, the real person behind the surveillance is the technology itself. There is so much technology surrounded by citizens that it is easy for the government or anyone else to know what people are doing or where they are. As “The Dangers of Surveillance” puts it, “many of us already carry GPS tracking devices in our pockets, not by government order, but in the form of powerful multifunction smartphones” (Richards 1940). Cell phones play a huge role in cutting-edge technology since they started as large phones and developed into small, thin touchscreens that require data to operate. According to Susan Landau, "the result is that cell phones leak much more personal information than landline phones did in 1986" (68), making them much easier for the NSA to observe. This is especially possible since the NSA has another program, PRISM, which focuses primarily on Internet use, generally for Apple products since that is what the majority of people use today. The dilemma between this is that, according to an Apple spokesperson, they "never heard of" PRISM (Greenwald, MacAskill 2), so the NSA violated their privacy without the consent of the business. Also, according to Edward