Description
The Rights freedoms that we have always enjoyed are being eroded by a force that few people can even see, let alone understand. Over the past twenty years, governments and corporations have silently constructed a web of surveillance that touches many aspects of our lives. The money we spend, our dealings with government, our geographical movements, our beliefs and lifestyle - all are being captured on massive databanks. As the time approaches when all major computers will be linked, the risk to our individual liberties grows. There is a real danger that within a few years we could all be reduced to little more than hapless subjects of a new technological order.
BIG BROTHER explores the frightening repercussions of this new computer technology. It shows for the first time how the linking of computers, the use of satellites and the stockpiling of vast amounts of information about us is creating a new technological order.
BIG BROTHER takes you step by step through the maze of technology to an understanding of each of the strands of the surveillance web. It is a plain English guide to the most powerful but least understood force in our society.
ISBN:9780330335560
