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Google Offers Privacy Opt-Out Village in Remote Terrain

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

WHILE IT MAY SEEM that Google is the electronic God-Eye in the sky (and in your phone, and Calendars and Groups and Docs and Mail and Maps and Search), there is—finally—a way to escape the ever-tightening web of surveillance. You can begin the process with only one click.

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Welcome to the Machine.

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

WE IMAGINED THE TELESCREEN and got the Essence right. But the Symbol we did not. We didn’t see that we’d not have them as TVs, but as computers. And we imagined them bolted down. And we never imagined they wouldn’t be mandatory, but sought after as prizes and status symbols. And we didn’t imagine we’d not try to slip out of their sightline, as Winston did, but that we would strip down naked and dance in front of them at nearly every opportunity.