An individual is able to figure it out simply by looking at the environment where V was and comparing it to the environment where Snowden is. In V for Vendetta, those behind the surveillance are the people themselves, whereas in this day and age with Snowden, the one really behind the surveillance is the technology itself. There is so much technology surrounded by citizens that makes it easy for the government or anyone else to know what people are doing or where they are. As cited in “The Dangers of Surveillance,” “many of us already carry GPS tracking devices in our pockets, not by government command, but in the form of powerful multifunctional smartphones” (Richards 1940). Cell phones play a huge role in advanced technology since they began as large phones and developed into small, thin touch screens that require data to function. According to Susan Landau, "the result is that cell phones reveal much more personal information than landline phones did in 1986" (68), making it much easier for the NSA to observe. This is even more possible since the NSA has another program, PRISM, which mainly focuses on Internet use, generally for Apple products since that's what most people use nowadays. The dilemma between this though is that, according to an Apple spokesperson, they "never heard of" PRISM (Greenwald, MacAskill 2), so the NSA violated their privacy without the company's consent. Furthermore, according to Edward