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 …
Networking everywhere!
Do you think that the “internet of bodies” is a fantastic and far-fetched idea-for-the-future? You’re wrong! Look at how many hands wear smart watches: they record various kinds of personal …
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 …
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 …
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, …
Technological metaphysics (a note on “artificial intelligence”)
The ChatGPT app gained 100,000,000 (100 million) active users in just two months from its release: it is a world record for the speed at which a technological application has …
Universal
Algorithmic totalitarianism and the universal surveillance state are not merely attributes of the Chinese regime, which Western regimes have zealously attempted to copy (and have succeeded to some extent) behind …
Pharmacovigilance…
A new word, in a handful of similar ones, which have one main purpose: to cultivate the mysticism of power… What exactly is this “pharmacovigilance” that came up for the …
“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 …
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 …
predictive algorithms
The canadian company bluedot, founded in 2013, offers communicable disease mapping services. According to founder Kamran Khan, the sars pandemic in 2002-04 was the reason for starting this business. This …