Total surveillance by charles ostman
Total Surveillance
(Charles Ostman)
• Who is Charles Ostman?
Charles Ostman currently is a senior fellow at the Institute for Global Futures, a consulting group which provides strategic research, analysis, technical due diligence, and related technology centric development services to Fortune 500 companies and institutions worldwide.
• What is the text about? Introduction.
We leave in a world where the dream of every single government is to control its people and their biggest nightmare is if they have the so called personal privacy. Much more worse is that we live in a world where these governments can control its people with no difficulties. We have developed the computer technologies at that level that we now depend on them. Every single aspect of our live can be easily tracked by these technologies. And the more one county is reach the more easy it is for its government to succeed in tracking every single person they are interested in.
Chales Ostman warns his readers about that threat. At the beginning of his article on surveillance technology ( which first appeared in Mondo 2000) he is giving the example with the U.S. government and their different methods of achieving that “total surveillance”. He is trying to attract the reader’s attention and made them think about that serious issue. According to Ostman the most sacred of our constitutional rights-the personal privacy is disappearing or it does not even exist anymore. The strongest example he made in the beginning of his critique in order to prove his point is the recently “born” National Reconnaissance Organization and how many American dollars are spend there in order to collect any kind of information for every person living there and how dependable are these people on this.
• The Universal Encryption Chip / Warning No1 /
Ostman explains that in the very near future that in every mobile device we are using or at least most of these devise have or about to have a special chip which produces to
(Charles Ostman)
• Who is Charles Ostman?
Charles Ostman currently is a senior fellow at the Institute for Global Futures, a consulting group which provides strategic research, analysis, technical due diligence, and related technology centric development services to Fortune 500 companies and institutions worldwide.
• What is the text about? Introduction.
We leave in a world where the dream of every single government is to control its people and their biggest nightmare is if they have the so called personal privacy. Much more worse is that we live in a world where these governments can control its people with no difficulties. We have developed the computer technologies at that level that we now depend on them. Every single aspect of our live can be easily tracked by these technologies. And the more one county is reach the more easy it is for its government to succeed in tracking every single person they are interested in.
Chales Ostman warns his readers about that threat. At the beginning of his article on surveillance technology ( which first appeared in Mondo 2000) he is giving the example with the U.S. government and their different methods of achieving that “total surveillance”. He is trying to attract the reader’s attention and made them think about that serious issue. According to Ostman the most sacred of our constitutional rights-the personal privacy is disappearing or it does not even exist anymore. The strongest example he made in the beginning of his critique in order to prove his point is the recently “born” National Reconnaissance Organization and how many American dollars are spend there in order to collect any kind of information for every person living there and how dependable are these people on this.
• The Universal Encryption Chip / Warning No1 /
Ostman explains that in the very near future that in every mobile device we are using or at least most of these devise have or about to have a special chip which produces to