Having a world in which it is nearly impossible to have complete privacy because of the developments of technological surveillance that has been used to watch and record individuals' movements. Some people are not aware that their lives are being monitored without their awareness. Two articles discussing the advancements and the use of technological surveillance: “Trading Liberty for Illusions,” (2012) by Wendy Kaminer, a lawyer and writer of some books and “If Looks Could Kill,” (2012) by The Economist, an english magazine that provides opinions on the connection between politics, international news, science, technology, and business. Kaminer discusses surveillance devices that are being used and that our civil liberties are being occupied because of the efforts that the government spends to detect a crime or to find a suspect by using surveillance technologies. The Economist (2012), on the other hand, discuss the advancements of these surveillance technologies and that these surveillance technologies are being studied and tested. Both articles discusses people privacy and they use same strategies such as Language and expert opinion but The Economist use an addition strategy which is counter-argument that make their argument more convincing. First of all, each of Kaminer and The Economist has different uses of language in order to get their audiences' attentions. Kaminer (2012) begins her article with,“Only a fool with no sense” (p. 397). As she begins with these harsh words which may not be accepted by her readers because what she meant is that if the reader does not agree with her, then he/she is a fool. She also uses emotional language by repeating the words “People felt safer” during World War II (2012, p. 398). This shows that she uses emotional language to create empathy and pull her audiences' emotions. In addition, Kaminer (2012) is trying to let her prospective readers understand what people felt during the