Electronic Surveillance: A Threat to Liberty In 1984, George Orwell wrote in his futurist novel, "You had to live -- did live, from habit that became instinct -- in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized." ...
INTRODUCTION "The ability of the World Wide Web to penetrate every home and community has both positive and negative implications - while it can be an invaluable source of information and means of communication, it can also override community values and standards subjecting them to whatever more may or may not be found online .... The Internet is a challenge to sovereignty of civilized communities, states and nations to decide what is appropriate and decent behaviour."" Judging by the impression one receives on browsing through articles in the media, it would seem that the Internet will ...
