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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 fault - oh no - it was a... [20 Oct 2006]
Privacy Protection Against RFID Spying: Challenges and Countermeasures
White Paper The privacy threats of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) as inevitable ubiquitous computing technology require new approaches to avoid scenarios as the "Orwell 1984 State" or the "transparent citizen". [09 Feb 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 to monitor our moves online, in the end Big... [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 thus far. [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 from Privacy International. [29 Jul 2004]
How Carnivore Works
White Paper For many, it is eerily reminiscent of George Orwell's book "1984. You may have heard about Carnivore recently in the news. It is a controversial program developed by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to give the agency access to the... [24 Feb 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 to be a nation of animal... [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 Orwell blush. [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 security conference on... [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 goings-on of the tiresome bunch of... [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]
Privazzzzzy? Pay attention, your wallet's at risk
Comment In George Orwell's 1984, everyone has a TV screen, with an "always-on" connection, in their flats to allow the government to watch their every move. Orwell never paid much attention to the people behind the TV screen. [17 May 2001]
IT industry left fuming over IR35 revisions
News The 3 sixty group - which has criticised the government over its IR35 proposals - called the amended legislation "a triumph of double speak that Orwell would have admired". The government's revised IR35 plans for the taxation of IT contractors have... [27 Sep 1999]
UK headmaster in trouble over data protection
News He was stunned at the interest from officials and media and said: "All these officials were reading George Orwell's 1984 at university. The headmaster of a UK primary school in Portsmouth who planned to broadcast video images of the school... [16 Oct 1998]
