This is also true for the work of Aldous Huxley.

One of the most significant aspects is thereby the manipulation and repression of human sexuality and its importance for the strong government. By doing this, The Party has wide influence on its adherent’s behaviour. The populace of his fictional society is monitored by a two-way telescreen in every condition of life. George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four can be cited as one of the best examples and it sometimes seems that we are not far from Orwell’s world. It’s quite remarkable that these current issues of surveillance and data piracy are similarly picked up on dystopian novels at the beginning of the twentieth century. Most of the user data was actually deleted by the student but still available for the operators of the social network (cf. He later received a parcel including 800 pages of personal information detailing Facebook events he had responded to, places he had checked-in, IP addresses where he last used the site, and other private details. More recently, the social network Facebook hit the headlines in view of the fact that an Austrian law student requested all information the company had on him.

It’s safe to assume that this number increase steadily and is still higher up to the present day. ‘There are up to 4.2m CCTV cameras in Britain – about one for every 14 people’ according to an BBC News article from 2006. In a wide range of countries all over the world everyday life is monitored by cameras, credit card transactions, satellites or phone tapping to name but a few examples. We all live in a society where the fear of the surveillance state is definitely valid. Sexual repression and its importance for the existence of the stateģ.3 Sexual repression with regard to the act of sexual intercourse

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