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" Rebel control of privacy "

The warning cry of hackers gathered in Rome: too many Big Brothers control our lives, we say enough

While Italian politics revolves around the bill on wiretapping and obsession with the fear that private calls are heard and are then disseminated the contents even in the absence of criminal relief - but yesterday the prime minister Berlusconi is back on, explaining that Italy "is the country with the most interceptions in the world" - From the suburbs of Rome raises the alarm about the many "big brothers" who monitor the daily lives of millions of citizens. To run it are hackers all over the country who gathered at the social center for the thirteenth edition of The Tower of 'Hackmeeting', the gathering of anarchists of the web, that the cry of "Fight the control 'gave three days off a banner across the network and the need to keep it free of restrictions and any limitation.

SOCIAL DANGER - 'cameras, magnetic cards, telefonini e social network - fanno notare gli organizzatori - controllano ogni aspetto della nostra vita e la registrano. Spostamenti, consumi, abitudini, conversazioni: tutto viene osservato, indicizzato e catalogato». Insomma, se la privacy delle persone è a rischio lo è anche e soprattutto per la presenza di strumenti all'apparenza innocui. Che per di più, in molti casi, vengono attivati volontariamente. Basti pensare al fenomeno di Facebook e delle altre piattaforme di condivisione che via via stanno prendendo piede: «Pubblichiamo spensieratamente le nostre foto - spiegano gli hacker - e mettiamo a disposizione il contenuto delle nostre email in cambio di una pubblicità targeted and less annoying and even offer the complete map of our personal relationships, indicating friendships, knowledge and affection. " In short: "We are ourselves to voluntarily provide any information that big brother alone still can not steal."

BIG BROTHERS - All others, however, are already available: ATM transactions and credit cards that allow a profile of each activity, supermarket loyalty cards that allow detection of lifestyles and personal tastes on the basis of purchases, Internet Service Provider that stores data on sites visited or sent mail with a lot of indication of timing and quantity of mobile phones in the passage from one cell to another leave traces of their movements. And then there are the electronic eyes scattered around the city. Only in Rome, for example, was opened two months ago, the "room system Rome," a central network that connects the more than 5,000 cameras located in various parts of the capital and even on buses. A system designed for security, but that exposes individuals to the risks of a control for the invasive capacity of the machine to automatically scan the contents of thousands of images per minute.

'AS IN WAR "- " Well - are revealed hackers - a structure essentially able to follow with its thousand eyes, a city along the entire route from anywhere in the city until its other end. " A situation that does not promise anything good, "one well-controlled living space - say the organizers of the rally, which includes seminars and debates and that will be dedicated to the Internet free through self-produced set up a WLAN available to participants - it's just typical of the areas of prison or war. Citizenship under control loses consciousness of their right to privacy and with it his dignity and their rights in general. This will create a generation incapable of demanding their rights because it can not have. "

TECHNOLOGY AND FREEDOM '- technology from this point of view is a threat, then. "But it can also be used to overthrow the ways and means of production, giving value to the collaboration, and sharing the collective good - says Deckard, one of its participants as it wants the practice occurs only with their own nicknames, in this case based on a story by Philip Dick -. Just think of the free software, which has shown that you can write programs and operating systems better and more efficient than those produced by large multinational companies, just by giving value to people rather than the money. "