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George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) (Paperback, 2008, Penguin Books Ltd (UK))

Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. …

The novel in combination with its appended introduction into new speech scared the hell out of me and if nothing else made me an advocate for data protection and privacy laws, that protect the citizen from the government, because it described the viability and the consequences of an all-knowing state very plausible.