Day: November 12, 2015

Theresa May admitted in the House of Commons, on the 4^th of October 2015, that the UK had been operating mass domestic surveillance since the ‘1984 Telecommunications Act’. The irony of course, is that ‘Nineteen Eighty Four’ is the title of George Orwell’s dystopian future novel which hinges upon the governmental surveillance of British civilians (or Airstrip One – as the book calls it).  An irony Edward Snowdown also couldn’t help but enjoy. But could this be as bad as the literary classic predicted? Continue reading “UK Surveillance Bill – Is Big Brother Watching?”