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Amelia Clegg

Smart wearables challenge UK privacy laws through invisible surveillance

A close up of a person's eyes and face. They are wearing glasses and in one eye there's. a reflection of a digital brain.

Orwell’s 1984 imagines a dystopia in which nothing is left unseen and captures the psychological consequences of life under constant observation.

In the novel, the omnipresent telescreen ensure that privacy was never entirely secure and consequently the possibility of being watched was sufficient to shape behavior.

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