Pizza Paranoia

Posted by Adam Kuban, July 29, 2004 at 4:40 PM

I ALWAYS FEEL LIKE SOMEBODY'S WATCHIN' ME A screenshot from the ACLU's Summer Surveillance Campaign website. The site is the ACLU's online home in its fight against invasive technology and government policies.

Using humor to drive home a point is always a good technique, and the American Civil Liberties Union does it brilliantly with this take on what ordering pizza might be like in the not-so-distant future.

In the Flash-animated scenario, a man calls his local pizzeria for a delivery order and learns that the teleservice agent on the other end knows a little too much about him. She knows, for instance, that he has high blood pressure and heart problems and tells him there'll be a high-health-risk surcharge on his order.

We've seen this before as plain text on a libertarian-themed website, but the ACLU's slick web-production work freshens it up.

[Thanks to Ian in Stockholm for alerting us to this one.]

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