Sales of the novel spiked in the light of the Edward Snowden revelations last year. In the book, telescreens allow Big Brother to keep subjects under constant watch and the concept of citizens being spied on by officialdom is a hugely controversial issue today.īritain’s CCTV network is one of the largest in the world, while leaked National Security Agency (NSA) files shone a light on the extent of surveillance of online activity. ![]() The novel is commonly cited in debates about modern surveillance techniques. Yet, it is remarkable how many tools that were used to suppress in Nineteen Eighty–Four are now part of the everyday surveillance regime in 2014.’ ![]() Emma Carr, acting director of Big Brother Watch, said: ‘Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four was supposed to be a warning, not a guidebook on how to create a surveillance state. Privacy campaigners argue there are strong echoes of aspects of the novel in modern society. But three decades on from the fictional future the writer constructed, how much of the world imagined in the book do we see reflected today?
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