{"id":6003,"date":"2011-09-11T12:56:37","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T23:48:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-11T06:50:08","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6003","title":{"rendered":"Orwell’s “1984” has come to the legal lexicon"},"content":{"rendered":"

NTYimes: Court Case Asks if \u2018Big Brother\u2019 Is Spelled GPS<\/a> by Adam Liptik:<\/p>\n

The precedent is novel. More precisely, the precedent is a novel. <\/p>\n

In a series of rulings on the use of satellites and cellphones to track criminal suspects, judges around the country have been citing George Orwell\u2019s \u201c1984\u201d to sound an alarm. They say the Fourth Amendment\u2019s promise of protection from government invasion of privacy is in danger of being replaced by the futuristic surveillance state Orwell described. <\/p>\n

In April, Judge Diane P. Wood of the federal appeals court in Chicago wrote that surveillance using global positioning system devices would \u201cmake the system that George Orwell depicted in his famous novel, \u20181984,\u2019 seem clumsy.\u201d In a similar case last year, Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the federal appeals court in San Francisco wrote that \u201c1984 may have come a bit later than predicted, but it\u2019s here at last.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I did a Westlaw search, and \u201cOrwellian\u201d appears in 531 cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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