26 February 2015
The future of surveillance
As I already mentioned, technological development are encouraged in first place for military and security purposes and only afterwards, usually, arrives a sort of democratisation of the technology, which is then applied also to other features of life.
In order to speculate about the future of surveillance it’s important, firstly, to focus on the proper meaning of the word surveillance,…
24 February 2015
Metadata – The real danger
In the previous post I talked about biometrics and in particular of facial recognition. Data extracted through these systems are surely more reliable than data got through other systems of surveillance so, even if still potentially dangerous, an automation of surveillance systems based on biometrics would be much more acceptable than a system which gets its data through tracking paths…