Can we live in an open and democratic digital society and, at the same time, one that is safe for everyone? When states, large corporations, security agencies, and police bodies use our data, they generally do so against us and our freedoms. To what extent will we be able to give up our rights in the name of national security and the common good?
Josep Maria Ganyet, a computer engineer and victim of espionage in the Catalangate case, introduces us to the surveillance capitalism of big tech companies and shows us how security agencies have taken advantage of it to create a permanent record of citizens' activity and the consequences of these events for democracy.
With Watergate, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward of The Washington Post taught us that when political power uses technology to spy on political rivals, "democracy dies in darkness." With Catalangate, Citizen Lab researchers have taught us that today in the world "democracy dies in the cloud."In The New Barcelona Postwe present below the first chapter (in Catalan) of this book, published by La Magrana and arriving in bookstores this Thursday:
FIRST CHAPTER OF 'LA DEMOCRÀCIA MOR AL NÚVOL'
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