The UN's newly appointed special rapporteur on privacy, Joseph Cannataci, has described digital surveillance in the UK as "worse" than anything imagined in George Orwell's totalitarian dystopia 1984.Speaking to the Guardian, Cannataci -- who doesn't own a Facebook account or use Twitter -- lambasted the oversight of British digital surveillance as "a rather bad joke at its citizens' expense".Warning against the steady erosion of privacy and increasing levels of government intrusion, he also drew sinister parallels with Orwell's vision of a mass-surveilled society, adding that today's reality was far worse than the fiction: "At least Winston [a character in Orwell's 1984] was able to go out in the countryside and go under a tree and expect there wouldn't be any screen, as it was called. Whereas today there are many parts of the English countryside where there are more cameras than George Orwell could ever have imagined."
1More
2More
Software Should Be Free: The FSF's first Annual Report - Free Software Foundation - wor... - 1 views
3More
EU doubles down on TTIP secrecy as public resistance grows | Ars Technica UK [# ! Note...] - 0 views
2More
Google ordered to remove links to stories about Google removing links to stories | Ars ... - 1 views
2More
The six tech policy problems Congress failed to fix this year | Ars Technica - 1 views
2More
10 years of podcasting: Code, comedy, and patent lawsuits | Ars Technica - 0 views
1More
El auge digital empuja el crecimiento de la venta de música en España casi un... - 0 views
1More
Ardour 5.0 Open Source DAW Officially Released with Tabbed User Interface - 0 views
1More
Comcast incompetence inspires more painful tales from customers | Ars Technica - 1 views
1More
Socially controversial science topics on Wikipedia draw edit wars | Ars Technica - 0 views
1More
Who can stop malware? It starts with advertisers | InfoWorld - 0 views
1More
Wikipedia blocks 381 user accounts for dishonest editing | IT News - 1 views
1More
The UK's proposed 10-year max jail term for file sharing must be stopped | Ars Technica UK - 0 views
1More
The changing face of open-source software | Computerworld - 0 views
1More
Firefox for Linux will soon support Netflix and Amazon videos | PCWorld - 0 views
NSA paid millions to cover Prism compliance costs for tech companies | World news | The... - 0 views
3More
'UK surveillance is worse than 1984' says UN privacy chief (Wired UK) - 0 views
6More
NSA contractors use LinkedIn profiles to cash in on national security | Al Jazeera America - 0 views
5More
Thunderclap: Free Information from Space Outernet for Aug 11, 2014 - 0 views
1 - 19 of 19
Showing 20▼ items per page