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Amazon's Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Comment One recent legal controversy took place in July, when Amazon apologised to its US Kindle users for deleting copies of the George Orwell classics 1984 and Animal Farm direct from their e-reader libraries. [27 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: The Kindle, Amazon's e-book reader
Cheat Sheet An interesting question - earlier this year, Amazon got itself into a bit of hot water after deleting copies of two George Orwell novels from users' Kindles, when it discovered that the books - 1984 and Animal Farm - had... [07 Oct 2009]
Amazon offers refund or redelivery for Kindle's deleted Orwell
News In an apology, Amazon has offered to redeliver copies of George Orwell novels that were mistakenly deleted from Kindle owners' libraries, or provide a gift certificate or check for $30. In July, Amazon received a torrent... [07 Sep 2009]
Amazon promises no Kindle repeat of George Orwell recall
News The removal of two George Orwell books - 1984 and Animal Farm - from the accounts of those who had already purchased them sparked an outcry from customers, bloggers, and mainstream media outlets. Amazon said late on... [20 Jul 2009]
"We must not allow ourselves to become a Big Brother society"
News Liberal Democrat shadow home secretary, Chris Huhne, said in a statement: "We are sleepwalking into a surveillance state and should remember that George Orwell's 1984 was a warning, not a blueprint. Both the Conservative... [10 Feb 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.10.06
Round-Up George Orwell eat your heart out? What a week! For starters it's been a case of red faces all round at Apple (shame), with news that a number of iPods have shipped containing a virus. Of course it wasn't just Apple's... [20 Oct 2006]
Opinion: Get ready for global surveillance
Comment George Orwell's 1984, one might argue, has finally arrived, 22 years late. As George Orwell wrote: "Big brother is watching you. Despite our best attempts to squelch the desire of business and government... [25 Jan 2006]
Devil's Advocate: Here comes 1984
Comment George Orwell's novel 1984 was inspired by the fear that a Stalinist communist regime would come to dominate people's lives. Martin Brampton isn't, despite what looks like the coming of a truly Orwellian society. [01 Nov 2005]
Devil's Advocate: ID cards won't stop terrorists
Comment Governments have become fond of waging wars of all kinds, despite the unhealthy echoes of Orwell's novel 1984. As with the war on drugs, the government has apparently made little progress in stopping terrorist attacks... [12 Jul 2005]
Big Brother Awards: US entry scheme shame
News They are titled the Big Brother awards, the phrase being taken from George Orwell's 1948 novel 1984. A scheme that forces all visitors to the US to be fingerprinted upon arrival has won this year's Lifetime Menace award... [29 Jul 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 12.12.03
Round-Up Or how about "Not tonight Josephine.but perhaps rather than coming from the mouth of the diminutive French Emperor a more appropriate Napoleon might have been the one from Orwell's Animal Farm. Now, us Brits are supposed... [12 Dec 2003]
File-swapper hits back at RIAA
News The recent efforts of the music industry to root out piracy have addressed a uniquely contemporary problem with draconian methods - good old-fashioned intimidation combined with access to personal information that would make George... [22 Aug 2003]
Gates v Orwell: Security needn’t mean a Big Brother state
News On the 100th anniversary of George Orwell's birth, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said the author of 1984 was only partially correct and predicted that technology will help preserve privacy rights. Gates told a homeland... [26 Jun 2003]
Don't blame the technology for 'Big Brother' society
Comment George Orwell created the then futuristic vision of a terrifying totalitarian police state where people are subject to intense surveillance against the backdrop of constant war in his book '1984'. With the inane... [25 Jun 2003]
Blunkett and privacy groups clash over surveillance technology
News The warning, issued on the hundredth birthday of George Orwell, coincides with Home Secretary David Blunkett’s call on police to harness and exploit new technology to keep ahead of criminals and terrorists. [25 Jun 2003]
