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Big Brother Is Watching You (Really.)

Brian Doherty | 3.31.2004 1:37 AM


The state of Delaware (with a federal grant of $346,619) begins use of GPS tracking to keep tabs on juvenile offenders under house arrest. Saving anti-surveillance pundits the trouble, the company selling Delaware the tracking services is actually named Big Brother Monitoring.

Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason and author of Ron Paul's Revolution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired (Broadside Books).