Welcome to Nineteen Eighty-Four; how much data do governments need?

While likening the current political climate to George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four may be considered extreme, current conversations in various parliaments are squeezing the concept of privacy more than ever.
One of the main themes of Nineteen Eighty-Four is surveillance and the reduction in privacy within the generation population. Apartments are equipped with two-way screens, so that they may be watched or listened to at any time, which is the same in the workplace. Central figures in g