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| Subject: Today's surveillance worse than '1984': Snowden Wed Dec 25, 2013 9:46 pm | |
| Former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, in a Christmas message on a London television station, called government surveillance worse than anything envisioned by George Orwell in his novel 1984.
"The types of collection in the book -- microphones and video cameras, TVs that watch us -- are nothing compared to what we have available today," Snowden said on London's Channel 4, an independent, privately owned station. "We have sensors in our pockets that track us everywhere we go. "
Orwell, a British writer, chronicled a future in which the US and UK were absorbed into a superstate that constantly spied on its citizens. The book was first published in 1949.
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