It doesn’t take more than about 15 minutes of being at the IAPP to realize we have a (somewhat un)healthy obsession with George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984). Between vintage movie posters, warnings that “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU” and being surveilled by a giant head that once played the part of Big Brother in a theatrical production, it’s something we IAPP-ers have gotten used to (mostly). Well, now we’ve got our hands on a collection of more than 100 different editions of the book, along with lots of ephemera, and we’re bringing it to you. In our first showing of the collection, attendees of the 37th International Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners Conference will have a chance to view our complete collection of versions of 1984 spanning regions from across the globe and the book’s 66-year history. Emily Leach, CIPP/US, writes for Privacy Perspectives about curating the collection and some of her favorite pieces.
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