Modern technology is developing and spreading all over the world. It is thought that technology development can help reduce the number of crimes. Others, however, believe that it inspires crime. Although technology opportunities may help prevent crime, I believe that it increases numbers of crimes.
With the help of technologies, crime may be reduced because it can boost social awareness. People know how to get all the information they need through the internet, and uploading details about recent crimes may reach all the people. Being aware of the events that are happening around us in the field of crime may help people avoid doing harmful things to themselves. In my town, for example, a shop was thought to sell donkeys meat and a few volunteers were able to record and post it in their social accounts, after which the government closed the shop with evidence in their hands. Secondly, the introduction of biometric systems has enabled us to reach personal information only through a person. People’s information can only be seen with their agreement. Bank accounts have the same system as well. Voice identification, finger, or hand prints are the ways to reach bank accounts. In Japanese banks, people have to present their face for scanning, after which they can enter the building and take money from their bank account or put money in. thus, technology development can decrease crime.
I, however, believe that using technologies inspires breaking the laws for several reasons. Firstly, dark web activities provide a platform for illegal activities, such as drug dealing, human trafficking, and the sales of illicit goods. Scrolling through the net, teenagers, or even adults can be part of those illegal activities. They can enter the platform by chance, but after which they start digging deeper into the site, get interested in illegal activities, and start engaging with those things. They also start dealing with drug, selling illicit goods, or even dealing with human organs. A boy who was thought to be a clever was found that dealing with drugs. His mother one day could not find his son, and when she reported the police, his son was found while giving illicit drugs to someone. When asked how he did this, he answered that he had found one site, entering it he got interested and started engaging such things. In addition, new developments in technology use have opened gates for cybercrime to enter the world. Hackers are very intelligent that they can break through almost any protections. The codes they know enable them to work freely and hide their workplace from the police to find them. Keeping a big amount of money in online bank accounts can be unsafe, hacking can steal the money of theirs. A mass of money was stolen from online accounts in my country, and hacker was found to be a clever young boy who learned IT from early ages at his school. Lacking from money made him steal others’ money using his IT skills.
To conclude, the introduction of updating technologies can help increase social awareness, and using a biometric identification system may reduce the crime. I believe that it does opposite the dark web activities, spreading through people, and breaking into online accounts using hacking methods in it and lots of opportunities not being found by the police.