“Revelation! The Luftwaffe bombs London.” Such a front-page headline in a British newspaper, during the Second World War, would have certainly been unthinkable; war then was the directly experienced reality …
the second operating system that exists in every mobile phone device
Having discussed the issue of closed/open source code and without illusions regarding the technical solutions to the technological issues posed by the information age, we are publishing a translation of …
Drones
The flying machines of the big brother! For the police, they are the ideal complement to the generalized surveillance, but for a photographer they become the wedding videography tool and …
general data protection regulation: a digital habeas corpus?
much more than you think… “The goal of this new regulation is to give citizens back control over their personal data and to simplify the relevant regulatory environment for businesses. …
Αway from bad thoughts!
While some researchers are looking for what will, after all, eventually allow techno-science to help those taking exams to “remember all the material” (p. 56), others want to provide social …
cyber warfare exercise
Killer robots are not only iron machines with lethal specifications, but also ethereal entities on the internet. Bots (a “pet-name” abbreviation of robot) are robotic programs – software robot devices …
Police glasses
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 …