Smile, the SLT is watching you. Photograph: Alamy
"Oceanians live in a constant state of being monitored by the Party, through the use of advanced, invasive technology," states George Orwell in 1984. This monitoring, according to Orwell, is the application of "science and technology to curtail human freedom and privacy, and to control human behaviour."
Of course, Orwell's terrifying fiction is increasingly seen as prophecy by some, especially as society is subject to evermore
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