"Big Brother" Strikes Again

Anyone have school age children/teens who are currently reading George Orwell's novel "1984"? I thought it as being more of a horror story than science fiction when I first read it, but today the snooping into our private lives is accepted as a normal, moral way of life (and entertaining in the "reality" type shows). I would be curious to know what the newest generation thinks of the current state of surveillance.
My daughter... age 25... hates it!!!