Palantir: Orwell’s nightmare

Alex Karp, founder and CEO of Palantir, spoke via video conference on December 3 with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis regarding the continuously expanding collaboration between Palantir and the Greek …

«Cyberspace liberates!»

The company called facebook entered the global market in February 2004. The company twitter in July 2006. The company instagram in October 2010. Whatever the system’s forgers do, the complex …

“Biometrics”

When one “locks and unlocks” one’s mobile phone with one’s finger feels safe… isn’t that right? That if it is lost or stolen it will not be able to be …

How wonderful that the “state of emergency” is!

They found a priest, they’ll bury five or six! The hygienist coups are considered (apparently) successful. So much so that the UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres, as decorative as he is …

Technical details…

Remember the “debate” last spring / summer about digital tracking techniques? When mobile phones would (supposedly) communicate with each other “informing” their users that they were “at a distance of …

Inadvertently (totally…)

The australian government, wanting to protect the health of its citizens (what else would a government want today?), last April, suggested that they download a contact-tracing application on their mobile …

the reset

… the pandemic will accelerate innovation even more, catalysing technological changes already under way (comparable to the exacerbation effect it has had on other underlying global and domestic issues) and …

Latent language…

Eye movement, hand trembling, body posture, contradictions in narratives and much more, are elements of the live communication that can show (or hide) the sincerity. The codification of these elements, …

Introduction to biosecurity

After the attacks on the Twin Towers, on September 11, 2001, the world entered a “new normality”. On the occasion of these attacks, new practices and technologies of surveillance and repression were installed throughout the spectrum of public and private space, which nullified the civil liberties granted until then. The “war on terror” imposed emergency mobilization for the purposes of managing the “Islamic threat”, which (emergency mobilization / urgent need) was then made permanent. Always in the name of “freedom”…

The evolution of the epidemic

Our saviors (and the friends of lockdown) claim that thanks to the measures we avoided the worst. And that now there is a need for new measures and lockdowns. The …

Metadata: the data in the microscope

The estimated size of the digital universe by the end of 2020, according to the World Economic Forum, will be 44 zettabytes (44 quintillion bytes); 40 times more bytes than …