Feb. 16, 2000

Big Brother Gets a New Day Job: Visiting Home Computers of Flight Attendants

Ever since Big Brother lost his day job behind the Iron Curtain, he's been looking for a full-time capitalist gig. Lately, some privacy and free-speech advocates have begun to worry that the under-employed totalitarian Cyclops finally may have found that job - monitoring the free market's disgruntled workers, especially those who use the Internet and e-mail for "communal griping" about the boss or allegedly for conspiring in job actions such as sick-outs.