Guess when this was written:

 Webbed in a continental data-net that year by year draws tighter as more and still more information is fed to it, most people are apathetic, frightened, resigned to what ultimately will be a total abolition of individual privacy. A whole new reason has been invented for paranoia: it is beyond doubt – whoever you are! – that someone, somewhere, knows something about you that you wanted kept a secret…and you stand no chance of learning what it is.”

That was part of the dust jacket blurb for John Brunner’s “The Shockwave Rider”, a novel written in…1975.