contactless contacts
It is said that students at American universities have adopted the Tinder dating app so much that they no longer form relationships in any other way. And that whoever has …
Contact surveillance – the applications
On May 5, england began the pilot application of the contact surveillance platform on White Isle. Undersecretary of state for “health and social welfare” Matt Hancock announced the launch of …
Social alienation and “contact” surveillance
Something tell us (not “something”, but many things tell us!) that when from this marginal corner of cyberspace we insist that the supposedly killer covid-19 virus is the alibi for …
Censorship techniques: an apartheid’s example
The israeli apartheid on palestinian land could not, at a time when information “circulates freely”, fail to also include a corresponding digital apartheid, or the control and censorship in information concerning itself and circulating on the world wide web. The practice of censorship or reality distortion was always the basic toolbox of any totalitarian regime. And israel sets the example for even that.
Emergency button
It has (or it say it has) 50 million users/customers worldwide. Perhaps they are not many. The online matchmaking app Tinder, and its owner, deserves to celebrate this accomplishment, establishing …
smart contracts: when bureaucracy becomes intelligent
Those who have visited the tax office for some procedural work, surely did not return with pleasant memories. With interesting stories and hair-raising details perhaps, but certainly not with an …
Boiling Frogs
There is an urban legend, a variation of an older fairy tale, which explains how to boil a living frog. As the legend says, if you put a frog into …
Not much freedom
The existence of “likes” on social media may not be beneficial. Its inventors, of course, had the good in mind. The ability of users to express their (positive) taste; or, …
When free software drops bombs… literally!
One of the most persistent myths that techno-fetishism maintains around new technologies has to do with so-called “free software” and “open source software”. The words “free” and “open” create connotations, …
Look at these mugs!
Why has an application become so popular that we have to wonder about the mental state of the subjugated? The well-known “FaceApp” (of the russian wireless lab) has been available …
blockchain: towards a legislative technology
In the previous issue (Cyborg #14) we made a brief reference to blockchain. Using the example of the first and basic application of blockchain technology, cryptocurrencies and specifically bitcoin, we …