On an adult level, companies that adopt "1984ish" employee monitoring policies know not what they do.... On a societal level, we are responding to feelings of pervasive surveillance. "THEY" got it - we don't. Do we feel threatened? What we you do? ANSWER: http://www.indymedia.org. That is more than independent collaborative media...that is the beginnings of The Surreptitious Militia Press. I'm writing an article on "surveillactivism" this very week. Bartnicki "changed things." Watch the state legislatures next session. ~Aimee

Gurly cypherpunk Aimee wrote: # # Critics of contemporary surveillance law point out that we # increasingly live in a world where THEY can spy on you, but you # can't spy on THEM. Governments, business and employers are like # bad parents that say, "*I* can do it -- but you can't." # # Children learn quickly....

For those of you who don't watch much TV, there is a PA by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America in heavy rotation right now.

The approximate wording:

[various children saying] You searched my room...

You invaded my privacy...

I hated you...

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

It's Orwellian, if I do say so myself.