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The book
Will the multiplication of technologies of monitoring, analysis of the
behavior and stimulation of consumption upset our everyday life during
next years? It is with this question that the book: "Under the
chips eyes -RFID and democracy" published by Southern Actes
try to answer.
The book presents a new technology, the radio frequency identification,
or RFID, which starts to develop in France on a large scale in a general
indifference. Who knows that Navigo of the RATP or Liber-T allowing the
passage without stop the toll of the motorways use already the RFID? The
companies of transport identify each user since it uses these very
practical systems.
Tomorrow, each manufactured good will be
equipped with a RFID chips. They will communicate by radio with
computers which will be able to analyze displacements of each consumer.
The police force will have an additional means of monitoring of the
population. Which society will generate such a generalization of systems
of espionage of the private life? What will remain of personal freedoms
? Is the spectrum of Big Brother re-appearing in the form of Small
Brothers?
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This site
This site presents the contents of the
book "Under the chips eyes - RFID and democracy" but also to go
further about its matter. The problem arising from the extension of
citizens monitoring is indeed in full topicality. Every day, new
applications appear and come to enrich the debate on the personal
freedoms.
Beyond the thesis exposed in the essay, this site brings information on
the RFID and it proposes to follow
news about Small Brothers, to mention
sites which speak about it and to
collect
reactions and testimonys.
The essay analyzes the context in
which the RFID appears, banal technology seemingly. It tries to be
projected in the society which could be concretized from within a few
years by using at the same time journalistic investigation and two short
fictions. Thanks to them, the reader immerses himself more easily in
this close future full of interrogations. The book wants to stimulate a
reflexion on democratic stakes of which it is essential and urgent to
discuss tod.
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