Bridge between 1984 and 2009?

In Finland they have created a new law proposal, called Lex Nokia, which would allow companies to read email details of their employees. Companies are not to open emails, but they could read time stamps, to and cc addresses and so on. It's now under consideration by congressmen and the result will be declared soon.

It was Nokia's suggestion originally, hence the nickname. This is only to prove how important and powerful that company is in Finland. The law has got wide resistance all over the country. It would insult individual rights, they say. I agree.

They had even cruder suggestion in Sweden. I haven't been following how that one has turned out. Nicely, I hope. The authorities wanted to read every email that is going through Sweden. In the name of security as well. Most of Finnish emails travel via Sweden, so that would concern us too.

This all implies to the world of watching and guarding in the future. The controlled society is taking over gradually. Orwell was right in his book '1984'. And Big brother is no longer just a stupid reality show on TV. We are the actors and the world is a stage. Scary.