1984 in 2012

   

 George Orwell's famous novel "1984" may soon become a genuine prophecy about today's society, in almost every way, with one exception - his dystopian society was never THAT controlling.
     In London, British authorities are very excited about their new plan for a surveillance program that will be able to store information about every phone call, text message email or Web page visited on U.K. territory.

    The government promises they are not set up to invade personal lives, and that no email will be read nor phone call listened without a proper warrant. Yet one can just imagine where could such an act lead and where our society may be heading when everything about a person can be carefully monitored by the state.

      Home Office Secretary Theresa May gives a very cold and somewhat threating response in an editorial for The Sun: 
       “Our proposals are sensible and limited,” she says.  “They will give the police and some other agencies access to data about online communications to tackle crime, exactly as they do now with mobile phone calls and texts. Unless you are a criminal, then you've nothing to worry about from this new law.”



     "Unless you are a criminal , then you've nothing to worry about from this new law" - Who else would find this line suitable for an iconic villain? Maybe I'm just overreacting, but nevertheless, what is the price of security? And is it possible that such a power could end up being used for purposes different from those intended?
      
     David Davis, conservative party politician and member of Parliament, declared  “This is a huge amount of information, very intrusive to collect on people.  It’s not content, but it’s incredibly intrusive.”



      He is not the only one shocked by this bill.  Human rights defenders ,  authorities and civil libertarians and many others, down to your normal every day citizen were just flabbergasted. 

    On the other hand, May keeps a firm tone.  “Without changing the law the only freedom we would protect is that of criminals, terrorists and pedophiles,” she says. 



     So the only solution could be regarding every living citizen as a suspect and 24 hour monitoring of their everyday activities? Obviously this is a statement from someone who's not very savy of the whole "Internet business", but every guy who spends most of his free time in front of their screen could tell you that everyone is perfectly normal until you check his browser's history. 
    Hopefully there are plenty of rooms in U.K prisons.