1. For further reading, see European Commission For Democracy Through Law (Venice Comm'n);Rep. on the Democratic Oversight of the Security Services,2006
2. Modern history is permeated with examples of the undue exercise of search and seizure, by those who felt powerful enough to exercise unreasonable surveillance of others. Modern history has also plenty of examples of the proper reaction of those who felt victimized by such exercise of search and seizure. In so reacting, the latter felt that, though lacking in factual power, they had law on their side, as all are equal before the law. If Orwell could rise from his tomb today, I imagine he would probably contemplate writing Two Thousand Eighty-Four, updating his perennial and topical warning, so as to encompass surveillance not only at intra-State level;Six and a half decades ago (in 1949), in his last book