| George Orwell - Authors, English - 1956 - 484 pages
...remained within the field of vision which the mental plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It... | |
| James C. Goodale, Rob Frieden - Law - 2021 - 966 pages
...remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was, of course, no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It... | |
| David Lyon - Computers and civilization - 1994 - 292 pages
...remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment.5 Nineteen Eighty-Four is often taken to be about the power of technology for social control... | |
| Liberty - Computers - 1999 - 306 pages
...of fragments permits reconstruction of the entire key. SURVEILLANCE, ANONYMITY AND TRAFFIC ANALYSIS There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It... | |
| Christopher Andrew, Vasili Mitrokhin - History - 1999 - 756 pages
...dissent. In Nineteen Eighty-Four Orwell depicts a state built on almost total surveillance: There was ... no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It... | |
| Michael Chesbro - Computers - 2001 - 180 pages
...'Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it. . . . There was of course no way of knowing whether you...being watched at any given moment. . .. You had to live-Aid live, from habit that became instinct-in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard... | |
| Dirk Nicolas Wagner - Business & Economics - 2001 - 204 pages
...remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded. he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system the Thought Police plugged in on any individual was guesswork. It was... | |
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