[LINK] Researchers warn of Orwellian technology

[David Boxall]

Resistance is futile ...

<http://www.itnews.com.au/News/84142,researchers-warn-of-orwellian-technology.aspx>
> The combination of ICT and pervasive computing could enable individual 
> activity to be monitored even more closely than George Orwell imagined 
> in his novel 1984, social scientists warn.
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> Describing a ‘privacy dilemma’ that is brought about by the fact that 
> technology requires information to deliver better or customised 
> service, Lahlou warns that such data may later be used in another 
> context and against users’ interest.
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> He referenced ‘the system’ of interconnected data-collection devices 
> including mobile phones, Web sites and surveillance cameras that can 
> search, analyse and predict the actions of individuals.
>
> “We are creating a system that will be aware of all that we do … 
> virtually from cradle to grave,” Lahlou wrote in the journal /Social 
> Science Information/. “The system as a whole will know more about us 
> than we know about ourselves.”
>
> Besides the risks to individuals of having their data used 
> inappropriately, Lahlou suggests that an interconnected system could 
> pose dangers to culture and organisations also.
>
> “Subjects who are aware of being constantly monitored with their 
> actions traced will tend to behave exactly according to the rules, in 
> what is called ‘agentic’ manner,” he explained.
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