1984, Surveillance, "Dataveillance" (relates to 1984 and Stone Junction essays)

[davemarc]

"Since 9-11, the ceaseless, accelerating extent of govenment surveillance of
many millions of us exceeds anything the malign J. Edgar Hoover could have
yearningly imagined. But George Orwell, in *1984*, had a sense of what was
coming...."

"As one example of current American advances in what the continually watched
British call 'dataveillance,' David Sobel of the Electronic Freedom
Foundation speaks of the 'largest collection of personal data ever amassed
by the federal government'--including '240 million airline passenger
records.'"

That's Nat Hentoff in a recent column for The Village Voice.

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0649,hentoff,75194,2.html

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