Orwell's 2009: How Privatisation Of Law Enforcement Threatens Our Civil Liberties
Imagine a day not in the far future when the police is legislated into a private corporation independent of the government. Its...
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Collective Intelligence is an emerging field that analyzes data gathered from the increasing number of sources that store and track information about people's movements and habits; cell phone calls, GPS units,...
There will be no more privacy then... " Plans for a massive database snooping on the entire population were condemned yesterday as a ‘step too far for the British way of life’. In an Orwellian move, the Home Office is proposing to detail every phone call, e-mail,...
When BART/MUNI Stations (and other public locations and thoroughfares) were first designed and 'sold' to us we were promised ample space for local ads, public service announcements, etc. and some corporate advertising. A reflection of widespread...
"It's the birthday of the novelist and essayist George Orwell, born Eric Arthur Blair in Bengal, India (1903). He came from a middle class family, but managed to win a scholarship to a distinguished boarding...
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"A senior police officer has warned that the proliferation of CCTV cameras risks creating an "Orwellian" society.
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Ian Readhead, Deputy Chief Constable of Hampshire Police, said he did not want to live in a country with surveillance on every street corner.
He...
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Trent Reznor, the brains behind Nine Inch Nails, is utilizing the interactive nature of the web to challenge his fans to piece together his concept album. Brilliant. Can marketing work as a game? Only if it works! "Trent Reznor could have just given a few interviews to...
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One of our NowPublic contributors was one of the first web sources to break the story about the unmasking of the creator of the YouTube video depicting Hillary Clinton as Big Brother. Today the blogosphere is...
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"A far-reaching wiretapping programme proposed by Sweden's government to defend against foreign threats, including monitoring emails and telephone calls, has stirred up a fiery debate in the past few weeks, with...
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"Homeland Security officials are testing a supersnoop computer system that sifts through personal information on U.S. citizens to detect possible terrorist attacks, prompting concerns from lawmakers who have...
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"It’s the birthday of Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, born in Kislovodsk, Russia (1918). He grew up a committed communist, and never questioned the party line. He even brought a copy of Das Kapital along...
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"Then came Hitler, the Spanish Civil War, etc. By the end of 1935 I had still failed to reach a firm decision. The Spanish war and other events in 1936-37 turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written..."
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"To track anti-American sentiment all you need is a $10 bucket of paint and a map of the globe. A quick look at the polling data shows that we don't have many supporters left. Take this dramatic example: six out of ten Iraqis favor attacks on US forces, and we liberated them."
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"A video game software maker wants to look over your shoulder while you play, and the company is developing software that will monitor and analyze every move you make.
Sound Orwellian? Some privacy advocates may think so, but the data revealed could help developers and...
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