Rex Malik from BBC's The Computer Programme on Big Brother and surveillance, in 1982 (!)

The BBC, in 1982, ran a series named The Computer Programme. In this clip, Rex Malik speaks of the dangers of Big Brother-ish surveillance and government spying. Prophetic words in this post-Snowden world.

What we do with computers has always depended on the cost of storage.
Well, the cost of storage is becoming trivial so that we can all hold almost any data we'd like to on the computer.
Does this mean that there's a kind of electronic Big Brother waiting out
there in the future? Well yes I'm afraid there probably is.
For the technology is now beginning to place awful temptations in front of administrators. Do it fast, do it easily, do it cheap.
What we need is law, custom, and procedure.

We need to be able to control what is held on computers, who has access to it, and how they could use it. And we need to be able to correct the record.

What worries me is not that Big Brother will get it right, but that he'll get it wrong.

The trouble is that people tend to believe what computers tell them. Well they shouldn't. There's a more than twenty year old rule in this game and the sooner everybody memorizes it the better. It's: Garbage in, garbage out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Computer_Programme
Malik died in 1992: http://www.cbronline.com/news/rex_malik_dies

Видео Rex Malik from BBC's The Computer Programme on Big Brother and surveillance, in 1982 (!) канала Stuart Langridge