Coming Soon : "Prism : The dark Side of Obama"

Prism : The dark side of Obama

By Annovi Fabrizio
http://www.webalice.it/annovi.frizio/

Coming soon : "Geolocation : the art of discover where are you"

Geolocation : the art of discover where are you

 

 

Our privacy

Today i had to write a post :"Cloud : the mist over our privacy" but they happened lots of things and the "file rouge" of these is "our privacy"...

so this video tells better than thousands of words... ...

You Have to be Worried!!!

Social Network or Spokesperson Vip?

In these weeks I read many articles in the italian, european and Usa journals about trolls on the public profile of Very Important Person.

People on social network write to "their" heroes : Insults, menaces and other fine and agreeable words...

Very Important Person becomes angry and protests, some Very Important Person says : "i leave"...

They are right, insults and menaces are crimes and the crimes must to be prosecuted because the law and his respect draws the difference between democracy and chaos , between to walk in a sunny day with our children and wife to do shopping and to stay at home because outside the door there are only risks.

They are right and this is not arguable.

But it's important to discuss , to understand because it happens.

In the use of Social Network the first error is to distort the disposition of media.

An usual circle of Friends

Social Network don't born as broadcast communication, it is media to take contact with a little circle of own friends, but the marketing and money make a great revolution and also Very Important Person decides to invade Social Network with their thoughts.

Journalists and Politicos,  for example,  spill their opinion without filter of editorial staff. These opinions are truth and not one can disapprove it, because when you have 10.000 follower in Twitter or Facebook , the relationship is similar to communication in broadcast , but sometimes ill-mannered , irritating or sarcastic .

This way to communicate induces obviously a behavior incorrect in many people because without a real acquaintance and  impossibility of real comparison the manner is similar to worst fan-boy  when in the pub discusses about Soccer or Politics and Politicos , Managers and Players don't listen you.

This not excuse a incorrect and illegal behavior, but if you want to use a Social Network like your personal spokesperson you cannot neglect the logic behind the media.

A future where the hardware will be the Human Being

Deux-ex : Revolution is a good FPS that tells about actions of  an ex-policeman with IT implants to help him to fight for example with a sight in augmented reality.

It provides a vision of future when human body will be the better hardware.

Developers have imagined a situation of these human devices will be only for people with money to buy medicines to block the answer of immune system.

And this is a good connection to introduce our post.

The most discussed device in this moment is Google Glass than is able to provide an AR (augmented reality) experience while you watch a TV, while you walk or run, because the information is in front of you like an HUD (Head-up Display in videogames is the sight on the screen with info as points life, radar etc etc) and you will can to give commands just to move your eyes.
 

 HUD of Adam Jensen , protagonist of Deus-Ex

 Wuahhuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!

It's incredible,  it's the future, it's what i want... Change TV channel in the dark night when all couches are dark ... and we shout “F***, where is the Remote Control?"

Another fascinating research concerns the use of the human body to transport data between devices as portable hard-disks or phones.

From BBC news

We are very close to buy a headphone that sends the sound through the human bones.

From Wikipedia

We can imagine thousands of others similar innovation, but we must to think how these will become better our lives and how will be a risk for our health.

Today no one definitively is able to say if mobile phone and wireless waves are a risk of our health , we know the problem of watching video 3D for long time or simple a risk of exposition to psychedelic video for some susceptible people, but the interaction between human body and devices it's a potential great risk.

How it's possible to accept technology more invasive without ask questions?

Some months ago i read a news about risk of to assume wrong posture for children using Tablet and smartphone, if there is a risk only for use of a device, there isn't a risk in the use of our body as device?

What do you want change of your body and brain?

Unfortunately i am not a doctor, so i don't want to say only my impressions but i would to have pleasure to introduce comments of expert of medicine that can provide some interesting and scientific information.

anybody here?

Coming soon : "A future where the hardware will be the Human Being"

The Big Data, an IT Big Brother?

I woke up today with my phone alarm (something knows this).

I connected with my tablet (something knows this).

I went to work with my car and i payed a fuel with credit card (something knows where i'm, when, my bank account and how much I spend ).

I used my badge on the work (something knows where i'm and when).

Every moment of my life today generates info and these info are stored by my bank, by my company, by e-mail server, by Apple or Google or Microsoft.

I can suspect also by some G-men...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/04/telephone-calls-recorded-fbi-boston/print

If I pay my shopping with credit card , my bank only knows how much i spend, but don't knows what I exactly have in my hands.

If I use a shopping card to have discounts, the supermarket only knows what I buy and this is useful to propose to me other discounts or promotion goods.

Ok, it's a problem? Not , absolutely.

But if a company or an agency can collect every info about my life, my account, my phone, my friends, what i eat, what i watch on tv and on internet, what i buy and what i sell, when and where I am, if i'm heterosexual or omosexual, if i betray my wife, if my wife betrays me and all you can imagine.

it's a problem? Maybe....

Big-Data are very incredible opportunity for Companies to improve their products and their process , if we analize this matter in terms of “productivity” , there only are reasons to think they are the best solution of business in the world.

Investment companies can predict the market unsteadiness, invest better and create a new interesting product for people.

Food companies can take out of the oven a new best donut with more sugar and fat... because Big Data say : "87% of people buy sugar and fat"

http://firewireblog.com/2012/06/01/today-friday-june-1st-is-national-donut-day/

Ok, it's a joke, but Big Data really can generate risks accentuating the difference between "want" and "need" in the market and also in politic.

If in the market we can accept this, in politics the risk about choices taken by an analysis of a Big "poll" without questions is very high.

http://www.businessinsider.com/republican-tech-rnc-data-digital-politics-2013-3

The Republican Party says "Develop and test political technologies dedicated to driving voter turnout in the 2013-2014 cycle" because in the recent re-election of United States President Mister Obama the role of technology is been more essential than before.

But words say more than they want to say... what means :"to driving voter tournout"?

If a company uses a Big Data to improve products, there is not problem, but if a party uses a Big Data to know what you wrote in Facebook or Twitter or in your blog maybe we must to worry about this.

But the greatest risk (Cispa docet) is about defense of own privacy, a concentration of info about me it's a danger, because without privacy there is not freedom.

Some agencies of US Government intend the privacy as :"persons, houses, papers, and effects." (Fourth Amendment ) but e-mail and other It personal data stored on third part servers are judged not "privacy",do you understand what this means?

Big Data are a incredible revolution in the IT sector, but the use of Big Data solicits more responsibility than ever, because a risk of exploitation of info by goverments and companies in the future will be the biggest danger for our freedom.