Big Brother: the series that made surveillance acceptable - Commentators, Opinion. It's an era, however, in which the wider meaning of Big Brother – in the Orwellian sense – has embedded itself in our national life, in ways of which we have only gradually become aware.
In the last decade, we have become the most surveyed, monitored, CCTVd, inspected, followed, targeted, filed and cross-referenced society in western Europe. We have endured the invasion of our privacy to a degree that would once have seemed possible only in science fiction. Iris Scanners Create the Most Secure City in the World. Welcome, Big Brother. We've all seen and obsessively referenced Minority Report, Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Philip K.
Dick's dystopian future, where the public is tracked everywhere they go, from shopping malls to work to mass transit to the privacy of their own homes. The technology is here. Plane Surveillance: Eye for terror or test for UK democracy? (Build 20100722155716)
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