Orwell v. Kafka: A Debate on Privacy Metaphors
Daniel Solove, a professor at Seton Hall Law School, argues in a soon to be published article that Kafka's The Trial provides more accurate privacy metaphors than Orwell's 1984. A working draft of the paper is online.Privacy and Power:
Computer Databases and Metaphors for
Information Privacy, Seton Hall Law Web Page.
Kafkaesque? Big Brother? Finding the Right Literary Metaphor for Net Privacy, New York Times, February 2, 2001 (registration required).
