From 1975 SciFi feedproxy.google.com

Webbed in a continental data-net that year by year draws tighter as more and still more information is fed to it, most people are apathetic, frightened, resigned to what ultimately will be a total abolishment of individual privacy. A whole new reason has been invented for paranoia: it is beyond doubt — whoever your are! — that someone, somewhere, knows something about you that you wanted to keep a secret … and you stand no chance of learning what it is.