Some would argue they had more privacy than we have today. Stasi had to put in a lot of effort and manpower to do what they did back then. Nowadays we have rep

Some would argue they had more privacy than we have today. Stasi had to put in a lot of effort and manpower to do what they did back then. Nowadays we have replaced manpower with technology, case in point: https://apps.opendatacity.de/stasi-vs-nsa/english.html https://apps.opendatacity.de/stasi-vs-nsa/english.html Everybody has their personal tracking device/diary with them at all times. Now we are even starting to spread surveillance devices all around our homes like it's the most normal thing in the world to have a telescreen (1984) like device in the middle of our living rooms. Sure it might not have the same purpose as telescreens in Oceania, but functionally they are already there and even Orwell couldn't have predicted the surveillance possibilities of massive scale smartphone adoption.