I went to this really interesting conference (A Professional Information Security Conference) today. And I want to see what you guys think about this....

1) Minority Report (The Movie) will become reality...
2) We citizens will have no privacy at all.....
3) Government will take care of us, and we have no choice....

Well, here is some of the ideas...

1) We have now got too many technologies which can profile us. It can also predict us. For example, What you say in your phone calls, where you go online, your surfing topics will be recorded and analysis. Your shopping habits, what you read, what you search, what you eat, where you go and so on, are all recorded. Then a database will do a assessment on you, to see if you are a High, Med, Low risk to the society.

2) All your DNA, Fingerprint, Retina, Iris, medical, your driving habits (GPS on all cars, to monitor your driving behaviour) What you eat, What you buy and so on. All link together..... So if you bought 2 bottles of Whiskey, and next day you want to get Health care cover, they will refuse.. Coz they know you brought 2 bottles last night.

3) There are so many information gathering at the moment, when you are born, the DNA of your kid will be recorded to see if they will be healthy. When you get pull over for a routine check, they will make you to input your fingerprint or other biometrics data into the database. In UK, we have more CCTV then all the European countries put together....

If you go out, you will be recorded on around 300+ CCTV each day. Your loyality card might share the info of what you brought, and your Credit card will should where and what you brought, CCTV will record where you being, Your mobile will record where you were, The GPS which are installed on your car are not an option, so your speed, your braking, your sharp turn and so on are recorded and what you watch on TV are put into your profile.

There might be a system in the future which detect people, and it will be just like the movie Minority Report!!!

The problem is this, if you try to re-new your road tax online now, try this. It will ask you if you want to check if you got MOT, and Insurance. And by checking yes, the system will share info about you.

There are currently over 20,000 bodies which can read our data, and most of these bodies, we will not even know where the data about us have past onto.


Lets discuss....