Whatever you do these days, be careful because Big Brother could be watching. This comes in the wake of revelations that the NSA works closely with closed-source software manufacturers to breach people’s privacy through backdoor means. But that’s not news nowadays, is it?
Such was a campaign by the FBI against one Albert Einstein that saw the feds spy on him for a staggering 22 years. Unlucky he didn’t live long to know it. The revelations were made in a book titled The Einstein File that was released in 2002.
The book reveals that the FBI spied not only on one of the most renowned scientists but also on other prominent personalities who included musicians, artists, scholars and other scientists of the twentieth century. The FBI file on Albert Einstein was first mentioned in 1983 when a professor at Florida International University – Robert Alan Schwartz – published an article for The Nation magazine about the subject.
The FBI dossier on the scientist totaled 1,800 pages as was revealed following a successful lawsuit by author Fred Jerome under the Freedom of Information Act that saw him obtain most of the material.
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