George Orwell might have been a few decades off on the wrong continent, and he may have missed a few other things, but he might have got the Big Brother part right with Google.

In a paper by Google researcher, Bill N. Schilit, and some other computer scientists, have suggested creating activity recognition systems. According to the paper,

In general, activity recognition systems unobtrusively observe the behavior of people and characteristics of their environments, and, when necessary, take actions in response — ideally with little explicit user direction.

The big question remains, what will they do with the information? What might someone else do with the information? They even suggested they could remind people in their homes not to eat too much or be on the computer so long.

How long before Google will be watching you?