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by George Orwell

Classic story depicting a modern totalitarian state; Big Brother is always watching. The basic vocabulary presented in this book - newspeak, doublethink, thoughtcrime - should be studied by everyone who values a free democracy. Put this one on your "must read" list.

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Accenture Gets US VISIT Biometric Security Contract
   A group led by Accenture has won the five year US Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US VISIT) biometric security contract.

Computerized Surveillance Devices Open Their Eyes
   'How often... the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork.'- George Orwell, 1948.

Apple Apparently Working On Orwell's Telescreen
   Now, Apple would never create a tool suitable for totalitarian governments - but here's what we could use it for.

Big Brother Would Like A Word With You
   In a dubious zero-tolerance policy toward unwanted behavior, Britain lets Big Brother do the talking.

Onboard Threat Detection System For Big Brother Airlines
   This system seems a bit too intrusive, and probably would not make me feel more secure while flying.

UK's Orwellian 'Baby' Brother Cams
   The British are really going overboard with their surveillance society.

Big Brother Now Watching George Orwell's House
   Here's an added incentive to visit the house in which George Orwell wrote 1984 - something not mentioned in the guidebooks.

Web Photos Now Have Zero Credibility
   Now anyone can rewrite history, taking only seconds for each precious photo.

Big Brother Test Hall At Penn State
   Since old-fashioned honor codes don't seem to be working, Penn State turns to newfangled security gadgets - which, it turns out, are an old story too.

Gesture Recognition TV Watches You
   Would you want a set top box with a camera in it watching you watch television?

LCD Panel Fingerprint Scanner
   Interesting LCD display has a hidden function - it can also take your fingerprint.

Kindle Orwellian Nightmare
   An edition of the Times which might have been rewritten a dozen times still stood on the files bearing its original date, and no other copy existed to contradict it.

Orwell's Telescreen Now Available
   Initially, this device could be used to create wearable displays that also offered eye tracking. However, it's basically a display that both presents an image and takes pictures at the same time.

Kindle Orwellian Nightmare Comes True!
   Literary irony was substituted for e-book versions of 1984 and Animal Farm on Kindles all over America today.

Emotion Tracking Big Comedy Brother
   Finally, Big Brother will have a software option for making sure that you are really participating in the Two Minutes' Hate.

Chinese Netizens Demand Info To Achieve Doublethink
   It should be obvious that you can't be expected to censor yourself unless you have access to information to which you shouldn't have access.

Orwell's '1984' Hits Bestseller Lists Thanks To PRISM
   'There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment.'- George Orwell, 1948.

Stasi Colonel Says Obama Surveillance Is 'Dream Come True'
   'There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment.'- George Orwell, 1948.

What-If Machine Concocts Creative Premises
   'Books were just a commodity that had to be produced, like jam or bootlaces.' George Orwell, 1948.

SciFiQ Science Fiction Writing Aid
   'Books were just a commodity that had to be produced, like jam or bootlaces.' - George Orwell, 1948.

Orwell's Memory Hole Looms Larger Thanks To Nvidia
   'All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.' - George Orwell, 1948.

Deepfakes Imperil Democracy (George Orwell, Right Again)
   'All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.' - George Orwell, 1948.

Capitalist Big Brother Co-Opts Regular Big Brother
   'It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time.' - George Orwell, 1948.

Arkangel: Automatic Visual Censoring
   It's whatever the Party says it is, Winston.

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