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dotti34 · 23-05-2021, 09:47

I thought I'd put my two-bob's worth in about privacy or rather the lack of it these days. In 1949 George Orwell’s book 1984 was published. People did not believe that any of the things in the book would happen and over the years would often say, almost as a joke, ‘Big Brother is watching you’ - Big Brother being a character in this book.

Government surveillance, surveillance capitalism - where your personal data is sold for profit, and all the new technology being what it is, it might well be that Big Brother really is watching you. Just a thought.

23-05-2021, 09:47	#1886
dotti34 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,189 Blog Entries: 80 Liked: 1480 times Rep Power: 833512	Re: Corona Virus I thought I'd put my two-bob's worth in about privacy or rather the lack of it these days. In 1949 George Orwell’s book 1984 was published. People did not believe that any of the things in the book would happen and over the years would often say, almost as a joke, ‘Big Brother is watching you’ - Big Brother being a character in this book. Government surveillance, surveillance capitalism - where your personal data is sold for profit, and all the new technology being what it is, it might well be that Big Brother really is watching you. Just a thought.