I ran across this article, searching "Big Brother", then noticed that it was from 2008.
Big Brother is watching you
https://foreignpolicy.com/2008/01/04/big-brother-is-watching-you/
It might not surprise you to learn that Big Brother looms large in places like China and Russia. But Britain and the United States are near the bottom of the heap too. According to a new study of 47 countries by Privacy International, a human-rights watchdog based in London, those four countries fall in the bottom tier of countries where government surveillance is used extensively. Other locales in the bottom group, labeled “endemic surveillance societies,” are Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand.