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- Analog Equivalent Rights (20/21): Your analog boss couldn’t read your mail, ever
- Analog Equivalent Rights (19/21): Telescreens in our Living Rooms
- Analog Equivalent Rights (18/21): Our analog parents had private conversations, both in public and at home
- Analog Equivalent Rights (17/21): The Previous Inviolability of Diaries
- Analog Equivalent Rights (16/21): Retroactive surveillance of all our children
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