The growing suspicion in recent days, recently dispelled by the Italian government, that the state secret service had used Paragon spyware to eavesdrop on a journalist and an activist brought to mind Juvenal’s eternal question – who controls the controllers? – but with the need for reformulation: who controls the suppliers of the controllers? by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian by La Repubblica-Italian Tech Continue reading “Paragon and Meta: the spectre of surveillance and the phantom of democracy”
Has the Data Protection Authority really ‘blocked’ DeepSeek?
It is quite clear that not much can be expected from the initiative of the national protection authority. Unless one wants to raise the temperature of the confrontation to a higher level. With all the implied consequences by Andrea Monti – initially published in Italian by La Repubblica – Italian Tech Continue reading “Has the Data Protection Authority really ‘blocked’ DeepSeek?”
Why DeepSeek scares off (Western) AI giants
So far, the common perception has been that to play the AI game requires such huge investments and infrastructure that any attempt in this direction is discouraged. China has shown that this is not the case. And now it can also advance to the conquer ‘natural intelligences’ by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian by La Repubblica – Italian Tech
Continue reading “Why DeepSeek scares off (Western) AI giants”
The TikTok ruling and the future of Chinese high-tech multinationals
The recent decision of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in the TikTok case confirms the validity of the law mandating the forced sale of the US subsidiary of the Chinese social networking giant, sets an important precedent in the relationship between rights and national security, and provides a fairly precise idea of how state control over foreign companies, not only Chinese, will evolve by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian by Formiche.net Continue reading “The TikTok ruling and the future of Chinese high-tech multinationals”
Who will save us from technological profiling?
Equalize, the scandal that is filling the newsfeed of these hours re-proposes all the issues posed by similar events that have happened in Italy and abroad, and in particular, highlights three of them: the ‘loyalty’ of the civil servants entrusted with the power to enter the citizen’s lives, the involvement of private entities in the provision of technological services to critical apparatuses of the State, the need to ‘cut angles’ or to practice ‘plausible deniability’ on the part of institutions, companies and subjects in top positions even in private sectors – by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Strategikon – Italian Tech – La Repubblica
Continue reading “Who will save us from technological profiling?”