An article by William E. Thompson and Joseph V. Hickey titled “A Surveillance Society”, gives a brief overview of surveillance history and its rapid growth in the United States of America since 2006. The article makes a note about of writer, George Orwell, who wrote what seemed a futuristic fictional novel, “Nineteen Eighty-Four”, back in the 1970’s. The main character, Big Brother, monitored society for dangers and began manipulating innocent lives using details he observed from the data he collected. This popular novel, and character, has now a common reference to society, cloaking the term, “Big Brother is watching!” Now, the book contexts seem far more realistic and predictive then a fictional writing. This is due largely to a terrorist
