+ Chicago Daily Southtown picked up Tom's column again this week and titled it Big Brother watching you? It wouldn't be all bad.
+ Capitol Hill Blue published it as Learning to love Big Brother...and fight terrorism.
+ Rocklin and Roseville Today (CA) published it as Loving Big Brother.
+ And Huntington News (WV) picked it up also as Loving Big Brother, but they included Tom's original (Police-referencing title) 'Every breath you take, every move you make ... can be watched all right.'
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Maybe Tom is right- maybe privacy is dead.
That’s fine, but I think he misses the entire point of Orwell’s parables. It’s not so much the fact that such surveillance exists, as it is the fact that this surveillance is centralized in the hands of those in power.
If the government can spy on me, and I can also monitor them for any shady dealings, then fine- I suppose that’s quid pro quo.
But if the government can spy on me, and there’s no oversight into how they’re spying on me, and any investigation into criminal wrongdoing on the part of folks in the government is quashed before it can begin in the name of “national security,” then *that* is where things get Orwellian.
The fact that this distinction isn’t even mentioned in passing in Tom’s article gives me concern.
The whole point of the idea of “Big Brother” is that Big Brother knows everything about you, but you know nothing about who he is, who he’s conspiring with, or what his methods are- and thus is de facto above the law.
Posted by Chris | November 21, 2006 3:35 PM