On March 7, 2021, the citizens of the Swiss state went to a referendum to accept or reject an “electronic identity”. 64.4% rejected the government’s idea. But the issue was …
Free “punishments”
The amount, 1.4 billion dollars, may seem large. But it is insignificant: just 1/10 of the company’s profits in the second quarter of 2024… Consequently, Meta Platforms (reminder: the parent …
Human intelligence…
Not a few were those who, considering that the theonazi, apartheid regime was “armed to the teeth” from every aspect, could not have suffered the defeat of October 7th without …
The ice
The uproar occurred when the British bank Coutts “froze” the account of fascist-mouth Nigel Farage, without notice and without explanations. However, the practice is at least 10 years old (in …
Data above all
When the interim government was caught (“by mistake”) having made an agreement with the notorious American (agent of the CIA and the Pentagon…) Palantir, secretly assigning to it the collection …
Guardian angels
Since 2019, American legislation has allowed insurance companies to adjust premiums based on the data they collect about their clients from their social media posts. “It’s a simple upgrade,” say …
Welcome
Where else? In the algorithmic prison. Companies and governments use information about us in a new—and uniquely insidious—way. By exploiting massive data files, most of it harvested from the internet, …
There are some spare change….
I see this is the job China is doing… If you want to monitor every transaction, you can only do this through a central bank digital currency… If you want …
data, more data: surveillance and punishment in everyday life
Surveillance has been transformed from an element of governance into governance itself. It is simultaneously government (system) and governability (self-awareness and cooperation, where the imprisoned becomes the guardian of himself). …
YOU SHALL NOT pass…
FuelPass, PowerPass, and soon FoodPass. Citizens of western societies seem to gradually have to get used to the idea that from now on they will need to chase the next …
The mechanics of the public: Big Data in parliament
In its complaint, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) describes how, with a data sample obtained from Kochava, it was possible to identify a device that visited a women’s reproductive health …
Digital currencies, algorithmic prisons
When the mandatory use of “plastic money” for 30% of the taxable amount of everyone was imposed (in Greece), the justification was “to combat tax evasion”: the idea that monetary …