1984- When has the government gone too far?

"Whichever way you turned, the telescreen faced you." (Orwell 110) They were everywhere, watching your every move and listening for signs of treason and treachery, however minor it was. If the police caught wind of anything, you could be arrested within the hour. Out of the ordinary right? This is the George Orwell's world of 1984. Or is it our Present Day world? A law passed in Israel and which the US is also considering allows police to invade and search the houses of any citizen suspected of minor crimes. These people wouldn't even know that their privacy had been invaded.

What we thought was just a fictitious dreamworld of deception may become our perceptive reality before long. "Knesset passed this invasive and sensitive law with no trouble... From now on, police will be able to obtain information from the telephone, cell phone and Internet companies with virtually no restrictions and with no connection to the severity of the crime under investigation." (Haaretz 2) I find it this to be unsettling and preposterous. If we allow them to take our right to solitude, we allow them to disfigure our human nature. "Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull" (Orwell 27) Freedom is the ability to live without intrusion from the government.