We've Been Warned.

• Author: Hamon, Vincent

In his latest column ("The End of Privacy," August/September issue), Jim Hightower rightly points out the many ways we have been losing our privacy to both corporate and government snooping. But what really caught my attention was his reference to George Orwell's 1984, where the information gathered was to "spot and snuff out society's troublemakers and dissenters." And who was the perpetrator of these acts? The...