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@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ In addition what I think that a massive Social Sorting brings is the risk of bec
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There are two problems with this: the immediate counter argument is that there is evidence that the NSA surveillance activities for example never stopped a considerable terrorist attack, and this article \cite{eff} from the\textit{Electronic Frontier Foundation} is a good starting point to debunk all the thesis that surveillance prevented terrorist attacks. But this is not the main point.\\
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I think that the main problem is that if we move in this direction, it means that we accept that our society becomes a \textbf{data driven} society, where the information we produce is more important than what we are. And I think that the direct consequence of this is that, on the basis of how the data is used today and plan to be used in the future, we risk to really become \textbf{indivisible} from our \textbf{past}.\\
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The immediate risk in this scenario is that an employer may not hire us due to a photo of 10 years before where we are in an inebriated state, a photo that maybe was only representing a moment of happiness with our friends, but that extrapolated from that context tells something completely different about us, something that maybe could damage the reputation of the company we are working for. This is what the discussion on Social sorting mainly tries to evidence.\\
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-But if we try to go further there is another another possible point of discussion that I think it is really relevant and that is the core of the problem. In a data driven society there is the risk of manipulation of information. It is not difficult to come up with examples as the one above were we can imagine situations were information about us \textbf{extrapolated} from the context in which it is produced can bring to completely biased and dangerous conclusions. There are possible scenario in which this manipulation could be intentionally, but often we are used to think that having nothing to hide this is not really a problem, and it is only a product of paranoia. But there are situations in which this manipulation is not intentionally, but may be for example the result of changed moral principles, that in a always evolving society it is something that naturally happens.\\
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+But if we try to go further there is another another possible point of discussion that I think it is really relevant and that is the core of the problem. In a data driven society there is the risk of manipulation of information. It is not difficult to come up with examples as the one above were we can imagine situations were information about us \textbf{extrapolated} from the context in which it is produced can bring to completely biased and dangerous conclusions. There are possible scenarios in which this manipulation could be intentionally, but often we are used to think that since we have nothing to hide this is not really a problem, and it is only a product of paranoia. But there are situations in which this manipulation is not intentionally, but maybe the result of changed moral principles, that in a always evolving society it is something that naturally happens.\\
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What I think we have to really ask to ourself is if we want a world where the information on us can \textbf{talk on our behalf} in every situation, if we accept that what we tell to our most intimate friends has to be analyzed and used to define what we are.\\
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A possible criticism to this is that we need to take responsibility also for our on-line presence, and that from the anonymity that Internet (seems to) give us may derive bad behaviors and discrimination. I completely agree with this point, in fact what I'm trying to also say is that we need to begin to think that our off-line and on-line lives are becoming a single entity, and that is impossible to think to maintain them separates. So simply technical solutions to this problem are not sufficient, we need to discuss and reason on these issues taking into consideration that we are discussing on how we want our \textbf{future society} to be.\\
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-Do we really want a \textbf{data double} of ourself that we may not even recognize? Do we really want to give so much power about us through data collections programs that do not really to be regulated in any particular way without even discussing before on it? Do we really want to open our lives to the world, share all the informations on ourselves with each other and become overseers of each other in this information based world?
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+Do we really want a \textbf{data double} of ourself that we may not even recognize? Do we really want to give so much power over us through data collections programs that do not really need to be regulated in any particular way, without even having first a real discussing on it? Do we really want to open our lives to the world, share all the intimate informations on ourselves with each other and become overseers of each other in this data driven world?
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The last section tries to go even further and to sketch a more deep vision of what I think is the real risk that we are facing.
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