Modern NSA surveillance exceeds even Orwell’s 1984 dystopia in scale

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Marjorie Cohn, comparing the modern American surveillance state to the fictional land of Oceania in George Orwell’s 1984, observed, “Orwell never could have imagined that the National Security Agency (NSA) would amass metadata on billions of our phone calls and 200 million of our text messages every day. Orwell could not have foreseen that our government would read the content of our emails, file transfers, and live chats from the social media we use.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1337

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