11.02.06
Machines will rule if we don’t curb surveillance
The Daily Mail (a British news magazine) is waking up to the sadly obvious: ‘Machines will rule if we don’t curb surveillance’.
The Information Commissioner stressed that while much of the current data collected on individuals was “fragmented”, the real danger to individual freedoms would come if all this information was gathered under a “Big Brother” regime.
“Two years ago I said ‘are we in danger of sleep walking into a surveillance society’. Our report commissioned from external experts really says we are already there. We are waking up to a surveillance society,” he said on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
George Orwell may have been off by a couple of decades (1984), but his prophetic tellings appear to be coming true. And in the very country he anticipated this happening.
Huxley’s dystopia is revealing as well: brave new world.
Let’s hope it isn’t too late to prove Orwell and Huxley wrong.
