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No More Privacy–And We Don’t Care

By Robin Bates | Published: July 17, 2013

We no longer fiercely guide our privacy, as did the worlds of Austen, Trollope, Thoreau, and Melville.

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When Surveillance Is Incompetent

By Robin Bates | Published: June 19, 2013

When, in a post last week, I found parallels between the National Security Agency’s extensive data mining attempts and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, I neglected to mention (as this New Yorker essay does) that one has to be careful with books that have themselves become symbols. When this happens, they become like clichés, losing their […]

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