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About 33 years ago, the band Death was already discussing the end of privacy in their song '1000 Eyes'.

https://oldtimemusic.com/the-meaning-behind-the-song-1000-ey...



It looks like the 1920s sci fi novel "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin is one of the earliest explorations of mass surveillance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)




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