Two terms, often discussed today, are Privacy & Security. George Orwell, in his novel 1984, suggested that political authority "Big Brother" will use Information Technology to control the masses. The early periods of Arab spring, on the other hand, suggested the opposite while more recent development support Orwells Big Brother. Leon Panetta, former USA Secretary of Defense and former director of the CIA, stated to ABC news Well, theres no question that if a cyber attack, you know, crippled our power grid in this country, took down our financial systems, took down our government systems, that would constitute an act of war.* In other words, the USA will consider any crippling attack on the Internet as a declaration of war on it. Define the terms Privacy & Security Discuss how IT is influencing both. Make sure to discuss security as defined at its many levels, i.e., computers, individuals and countries, and how existing concepts such as superpower has changed due to IT.