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The Rise of Digitalism: Will the Coronavirus Trigger the End of Liberalism?

“The story of Digitalism explains the future as a struggle for data among companies and (certain) governments trying to collect as much data as possible and citizens trying to protect their data and privacy. Digitalism envisions a world where data is the most important resource in society. It thrives on capitalism and depending on the …

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We must save privacy from privacy itself

“Michele Loi is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Zurich. He argues that proponents of privacy should not put privacy above health – else risk sliding into irrelevance. [..] The second risk for privacy is paradoxical: it follows from having “too much respect” for privacy itself. If our concern with privacy prevents urgent political action …

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Yuval Noah Harari: the world after coronavirus

In recent years both governments and corporations have been using ever more sophisticated technologies to track, monitor and manipulate people. Yet if we are not careful, the epidemic might nevertheless mark an important watershed in the history of surveillance. Not only because it might normalise the deployment of mass surveillance tools in countries that have …

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Leaked reports show EU police are planing a pan-European network of facial recognition databases

The EU could soon be creating a network of national police facial recognition databases. If previous data-sharing arrangements are a guide, the new facial recognition network will likely be connected to similar databases in the U.S., creating what privacy researchers are calling a massive transatlantic consolidation of biometric data. To the police, the advantages of …

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“Mark Zuckerberg says ‘Privacy is the future’ very confusing”

Businesses, advertisers, commerce always try to persuade people, you know, always try to change people’s behavior and get them to buy something that they didn’t want to buy so there’s nothing new about this. And of course, that’s true. There is nothing new about our desire to persuade each other to do things that we …

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