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Fortune
Christiaan Hetzner

Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’

Oracle founder Larry Ellison (Credit: Phillip Faraone—Getty Images)

George Orwell’s 1984 warned of a future where Big Brother watches every move. Today, modern technology is making that vision a reality, and Oracle founder Larry Ellison—the world’s second-richest person—sees a growing opportunity for his company to help authorities analyze real-time data from millions of surveillance cameras.

“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle's Financial Analyst Meeting last week.  

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