Freitag 10.10. Simon Davies (privacy.org / UK) "Touching Big Brother - How New Technologies will fuse Flesh and Machine" -------------------------------------------------19:00 media~space! (Vortrag in englischer Sprache) The architects of twentieth century technology aim to create a complete intimacy between humans and machines. Human identity, personal choice, idiosyncrasies and individual history are integrated not merely as hard data, but as part of the very core of the functioning of technology. And, as machines of every type become interoperable, this intimacy moves from gimmickry to symbiosis, and finally to a tool of mass control. This symbiosis of flesh and machine is not some benign economic relationship, but a crucial political issue no different to any other involving power and control. In short, by demanding our partnership, technology is removing human identity.Privacy of the individual is one small but fundamental facet in this evolving relationship between humans and technology. Free market economics, privatization, the erosion of sovereignty globalization, and the convergence of big business are combining with the evolution of technology to create humans who - while perhaps being more sophisticated that their ancestors - are denied the full spectrum of benefits that technology could have offered. In this talk, British academic and privacy campaigner Simon Davies will present a polemic on technology and its implications. He will describe the key features of the new fusion - perfect identity, perfect knowledge and total control - and will describe the technologies which will make this nightmare a reality - biometris, robotics, mass surveillance and so on. Simon Davies has worked for the past ten years as a specialist in privacy and data protection. He is a Visiting Fellow in the Computer Security Research Centre of the London School of Economics, and a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Law of the University of Essex. Simons writing on privacy and technology has been published extensively. He has written five books (the most recent being Big Brother, published by Pan UK), and contributes regularly to more than two dozen newspapers, journals and periodicals including the Daily Telegraph, New Scientist, Wired and the Independent. He has also been a consultant adviser to numerous government, professional and corporate bodies, including the British Medical Association, the United Kingdom Department of Social Security, the Ontario Privacy and Information Commissioner and Telecom Australia. In 1990, Simon founded a global coalition of privacy experts and advocates - Privacy International - which now has academic, professional and activist members in more than forty countries.Privacy International currently publishes the International Privacy Bulletin, organises two conferences per year, and conducts a variety of campaigns and research projects on surveillance and privacy subjects. Simon has campaigned on privacy issues from Identity cards to military surveillance in twenty countries. ### public netbase media~space! institute for new culture technologies/t0 museumsquartier museumsplatz 1 a-1070 vienna, austria fon: +43 1 522 18 34 http://www.t0.or.at office@t0.or.at ###