By Hector Cisneros
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In George Orwell’s Sci-Fi novel 1984, there was no place the masses could go where they weren’t being observed and coerced by Big Brother. While 1984 was a work of fiction and the year 1984 came and went without a hitch, fast forward 37 years and suddenly the kind of dystopian surveillance society George Orwell portrayed isn’t such a stretch of the imagination. Everyone from governments to business owners and numerous consumers routinely use video surveillance to keep an eye on the public. Data mining is a way of life online and off. The NSA acknowledges that it routinely monitors phone, text, and emails being sent and received by us all. On top of that, big businesses are now employing artificial intelligence to sift through the mountains of data they routinely collect on every man woman, and child online. In today’s blog, I will give you the latest updates on what's what when it comes to Internet spying.
