It is very difficult to find examples of Big Brother in our modern day society.  I mean there are many people who consider it common knowledge that the government decieves us, even though most the time these people don't know for sure, and have never seen actual e idence that these things take place.  That is the biggest connection I can see between "Big brother" and modern American society.  The government does not want you to know that there are any injustices taking place, because if you don't know you wont complain. 

If you asked a majority of people if they would give up freedoms for security they would be more than willing without realizing what that really means.  Without our freedoms our society would eventually hit a point where we would be in a society similar to the one in 1984, where the government controls everything and manipulates the people to serve their own interests. 

Privacy still exists today just not absolutely everywhere.  People seem to feel like their privacy is being infringed on more and more, however, I feel like it is due to the increase in areas where these privacies can be infringed on.  If you want complete privacy, I suggest that you don't use the internet because there is zero privacy there and everything gets recorded.