In 1949, George Orwell published a novel that forever changed how we view privacy
George Orwell's chilling vision of a surveillance state reached the public in 1949, introducing terms like 'Big Brother' and 'Thought Police' that continue to define our modern debates over privacy.
On June 8, 1949, George Orwell published his masterpiece 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' in the United States, offering a terrifying look at a world under total government surveillance. Orwell wrote the book while battling tuberculosis on a remote Scottish island, intending it as a warning against totalitarianism and the manipulation of language.
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