What Google didn’t achieve with its “glasses,” the Chinese state will achieve – by putting the glasses on the American “giant.” Because being able to monitor each other so openly …
data: the new “raw material”
you can’t get lost In the house where I grew up, the forest reached right up to our back door. Many summer mornings I would run out and get lost …
Unchain my heart, baby let me go!
Pacemaker: a small medical device implanted under the skin (or, if it’s the latest model, inside the heart) in a cardiac patient, whose mission is to send rhythmic electrical signals …
Public order and safety
The technology festival in Hanover is one of the largest in the world. And probably the largest in Europe. It plays the role that the legendary “Great Exhibition of the …
the great panoptic is (now) also esoptic
“Every time someone uses Google’s services, they participate in at least a dozen experiments.” This statement was made in 2012 by Google’s chief economist during a conference organized by the …
Web footprints
Those who believe that cyberspace is the great opportunity to “disappear” (hiding their identity) are sorely mistaken. The conscription of providers (i.e., the data of their customers) is a well-known …
don’t believe the hype: social media and black propaganda
What is communicated are commands and… those who give them also say what they mean. Guy Debord, Comments on the Society of the Spectacle, 1988 Here, to “speak” you must …
Robocop
We will one day remember that the first robot-police officers appeared in 2016 at the edge of the Saudi Arabian peninsula, in Dubai. We will remember that they were launched …
The metaphysics of cyber-warfare
This is “the bad guy” Sauron, from “the lord of the rings”. ProjectSauron is what the well-known Russian malware fighting company Kaspersky Labs named a new discovery of theirs (almost …
Transparent world
In the past, all kinds of security services had to “get their hands dirty” in order to achieve a good and reliable rate of filing cases against subjects under surveillance. …
eagle vs drone
“The ribs eat first”: the saying is about something else, but however it is reversed (for the moment…) at the point of the new example: the first eat the ribs! …
The two sides of social networking
Social media is a virtual field of sociality, where social time is converted into digital space. A virtual, digital space where millions of users deposit pieces of their daily activity, …