Big Brother

big brother English thumb|upright|alt=Propaganda-style poster, with the caption "Big Brother is Watching You", depicting a large man gazing at the viewer.|Poster of Big Brother Alternative forms en big brother Etymology en :af big brother After the nominal leader of Oceania (Nineteen Eighty-Four) Oceania in the 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by Q3335. Noun Big Brother Unwarranted, invasive, and discreet surveillance, especially of a people by its government. 2002, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Web privacy with P3P, page 12 Some people are worried about marketing calls at dinnertime or junk mail or spam, while others are more concerned about Big Brother. 2008, Bertrand du Castel, Timothy M. Jurgensen Computer Theology, page 314 When one mentions the concepts of identity and governance in the same breath, a virtually autonomic response from many is the concern that a governmental big brother will soon be looking over their shoulders. Any omnipresent authority or figurehead representing oppressive control. en system<id:the system, typically run by the Man><alt:the System> en the man#Noun<alt:the Man> leviathan<id:political state><alt:Leviathan> 1999, Rebecca A. Grant, Colin John Bennett, Visions of privacy: policy choices for the digital age, page 244 In the late 1960s and early 1970s, at the height of public concern over the emergence of a Big Brother society, privacy activism shared features in common with some of the hard-line environmental campaigns of the 1990s. 2003, Rodney Carlisle, Rodney P. Carlisle, Complete idiot's guide to spies and espionage, page 195 When the agencies of the federal government spied on the political activities of US citizens, they moved into the grey area between concern with national security and a Big Brother system that violated constitutional protections. Derived terms en Big Brotherish / Big-Brotherish Big Brotherism Descendants zh 1 cmn 老大哥 1 fi isoveli 1 fr Big Brother 1 el Μεγάλος Αδελφός 1 hu Nagy Testvér 1 pl Wielki Brat 1 pt Grande Irmão 1 ru Ста́рший Брат Большо́й Брат 1 sh sh велики брат 1 sh veliki brat 1 1 es Gran Hermano 1 sv storebror Translations unwarranted and invasive government surveillance Finnish: fi isoveli French: fr Big Brother Greek: el Μεγάλος Αδελφός m Hungarian: hu Nagy Testvér Polish: pl Wielki Brat m Portuguese: pt Grande Irmão m Russian: ru Ста́рший Брат, ru Большо́й Брат m Serbo-Croatian: sh велики брат m, sh veliki brat m Spanish: es Gran Hermano m Swedish: sv storebror c Welsh: cy Brawd Mawr m authority representing oppressive control Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 老大哥 Polish: pl Wielki Brat m Portuguese: pt Grande Irmão m Spanish: es Gran Hermano m Welsh: cy Brawd Mawr m German: de Großer Bruder m en eponyms terms derived from Nineteen Eighty-Four en British fiction Collectives Forms of government Fictional characters French Etymology fr :bor en:Big Brother 1 fr en Big Brother. Pronunciation Big_ Brŏzeur fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick-Big Brother.wav <<France>> (<<Somain>>) Noun 1 m Big Brothers en Big Brother Derived terms fr bigbrotherien / bigbrothérien bigbrotherisme