After the Google latitude story, we became suspicious and started to collect stories about analogous threats on our privacy. We found some that remind us of the gloomy furure of William Gibson Neuromancer. One thing is clear, if some regime, let it be the US, Russian or Chinese wants to install a fascist state, it wil have a plethora of technical means at his disposition to track down people, to spy on them, mostly without their consent and often without their knowledge.
Jeremy’s Bentam panoptical society is close. The Panopticon is a type of prison building designed by English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in 1785. The concept of the design is to allow an observer to observe (-opticon) all (pan-) prisoners without the prisoners being able to tell whether they are being watched, thereby conveying what one architect has called the “sentiment of an invisible omniscience.
Just reach what gloomy future is before us.
Humans ‘will be implanted with microchips’
All Australians could be implanted with microchips for tracking and identification within the next two or three generations, a prominent academic says. Michael G Michael from the University of Wollongong’s School of Information Systems and Technology, has coined the term “uberveillance” to describe the emerging trend of all-encompassing surveillance. “Uberveillance is not on the outside looking down, but on the inside looking out through a microchip that is embedded in our bodies,” Dr Michael told ninemsn. Microchips are commonly implanted into animals to reveal identification details when scanned and similar devices have been used with Alzheimers patients. Continue reading
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