The worrying rise of the Big Brother app

Why more and more of us feel the need to spy on our partners using spying apps.

I was chatting to the novelist Robert Harris last week about George Orwell's 1984 a book far ahead of its time in showing how technology can be used, as he put it, "to spy into all our lives".

But the most dangerous power now, he thinks, is not state power, as Orwell envisaged, but the power of corporations, and of individuals, to track us in all our daily movements.

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