Kafkaesque? Big Brother? Finding the Right Literary Metaphor for Net Privacy
The slogan is great to toss around at conferences
and parties. But people who take books and ideas
seriously might well ask: is Big Brother -- the
personification of an all-seeing totalitarian
government depicted in George Orwell's novel
"1984" -- the best metaphor to describe the privacy
problems of the Internet Age?
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/02/technology/02CYBERLAW.html?pagewanted=all