The idea The idea of integrating European databases with data from EU citizens, as well as those coming to the EU (as tourists or migrants), has been on the discussion …
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, DNA and identities: the incorporation of borders
In June 2020, we closed the text for “plague’s political dream” as follows: Certainly, reality is not that universal. The questioning of experts is one example, and the world circulating …
Smart Policing…
The report is titled From this summer 1,000 portable devices of ELAS will scan citizens’ faces during patrols; signed by Korina Petridi; date January 28, 2021; from the site “reporters …
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 …
“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 …
Whose health? (of the 4th industrial revolution!)
Digital technologies, human behavior data, and algorithmic decision-making are set to play an increasingly critical role in addressing future crises. As we increasingly place our hope for solving fundamental problems …
The data in the bank’s gis
400 million Indians will have to go through facial recognition to access their bank accounts. More than 400 million people in India who have bank accounts where benefits or various …
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 …
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 …