What does the “average” layperson know about viral infections? What do they know about their treatments? What do they know about vaccines – those that used to be called (and …
The policy of “great borders”
The introduction of digital technologies, within the framework of managing the so-called “migration crisis,” has made these populations “objects of experimentation” (populations of data experimentation). At the same time, they …
It falls into the police!
Are you (we are) tired / from the hammering of the hygiene terror campaign? The demagogues say it and say it again… Did they get caught by kindness, sensitivity, compassion? …
The European bio-fortress
The idea The idea of integrating European databases with data from EU citizens, as well as those coming to the EU (as tourists or migrants), has been on the discussion …
Rescheduling
One of the key points that all members of the bioinformatics-security complex (and along with them, the masses of ordinary kool-aid drinkers who feed their hypertrophic egos with poser ignorance …
What can biometric technology reveal to employers
In recent years, increasingly advanced technology has emerged for monitoring and supervising employees in the workplace and during working hours – and even more so, outside of these two. Employers …
Genetics, biometrics and the “informatization of the body”
Introduction In a work devoted to biometrics, it might not seem obvious to devote much attention to genetics. Genetics is a very special case within the category of biometric technologies; …
Biometrics, DNA and identities: the incorporation of borders
In June 2020, we closed the text for “plague’s political dream” as follows: Certainly, reality is not that universal. The questioning of experts is one example, and the world circulating …
The twins “health” and “safety”
I was at a discussion panel on internet security and, I’ll say it, it was terrifying. Between individual frauds, organized crime, corporate and state espionage, things are very dangerous out …
Synthetic biology, genealogy: life is cheap!
Is it biotechnology? Is it nanotechnology? Or perhaps it is information technology? The field of synthetic biology is practically all three together – an example of “converging technologies”, another one …
Smart Policing…
The report is titled From this summer 1,000 portable devices of ELAS will scan citizens’ faces during patrols; signed by Korina Petridi; date January 28, 2021; from the site “reporters …
Information warfare strategy and its assets: intellectuals, journalists, experts
We owe Alex Carey the following accurate observation. We tend to think that the most totalitarian regimes are those that make the most systematic use of propaganda and psychological warfare …