IP Watch published a good article about a topic that the more I read about and the more I think it's an issue that we should address more carefully: privacy, data retention and data mining.
Ad hoc, the title of the main conference of Ars Electronica, held this year: "Goodbye Privacy". And from the conference Brian Holmes' words:
Our movements, our speech, our emotions and even our dreams have become the informational message that is incessantly decoded, probed and reconfigured into statistical silhouettes, serving as targets for products, services, political slogans or interventions of the police
No matter how good Google's researches and services will get, the problem here is that the improvement and growth of databases and data mining means weakening of our privacy. As of today this is unavoidable, benefit of one is a threat for the other. That's why I'd like to see some changes of directions in policies and technologies implementations.
Reading IP Watch it reminded me of an old article about monitoring and the surveillance 'nightmare' I've read fewmonths ago: The Panopticon: A Mass Surveillance Prison For Humanity
And after all, I think, we can't disagree with Marko Peljhan when saying:
We have to participate in the technology from the beginning, have to be there when the governments start legislating this.
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