Big Brother state, or Little Brother society: How healthy is our data-sharing culture?

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Peter Cochrane weighs up the relative usefulness or harm of the information we give away as the IoT looms into view

I think George Orwell would be very pleased with many of his 1984 predictions foretelling today's surveillance society, but I am also sure he would be amazed that we buy our own cameras, install th...

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