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 …
the monitoring of daily life
In recent years, a wide range of companies has begun to monitor people in almost every aspect of their lives. Behaviors, movements, social relationships, interests, disabilities, and most private moments …
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, …
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). …
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 …
The body as a datacenter: data storage and processing in DNA
According to experts, we have a serious problem that needs to be addressed soon: the volume of data is continuously increasing, to a point where the infrastructures for its mass …
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 …
Immunity passports
They said that the excellent prime minister of hellastan had a brilliant idea: health passports in order to create a “fast lane” for intra-European international travel!Really? Is the excellent one …
Semantic technology: the restructure of meaning
Sometimes on the internet we are asked to prove that we are not robots. This usually happens when creating accounts on various platforms or when identifying ourselves upon entering them. …
The filing
“It’s not what you think, my love”… The digital certificate, the “health passport” and the (health) apartheid are neither a digital certificate, nor a “passport”, nor apartheid. So what are …
The policy of “great borders”
The introduction of digital technologies, within the framework of managing the so-called “migration crisis,” has made these populations “objects of experimentation” (populations of data experimentation). At the same time, they …
It falls into the police!
Are you (we are) tired / from the hammering of the hygiene terror campaign? The demagogues say it and say it again… Did they get caught by kindness, sensitivity, compassion? …