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-To conclude I will try to sum-up my thesis and also to highlight some possible ways in which we can challenge the problems that surveillance is bringing, by describing my general point of view on this matter.\\
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+To conclude I will try to sum-up my thesis and also to just show some possible ways in which we can challenge the problems that surveillance is bringing, by describing my general point of view on this matter, even if this is not strictly correlated with my thesis.\\
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I'm not saying that we have to reject all forms of online communications, of social media etc... Of course often these instruments can be really helpful, and for example the free circulation of knowledge that we have today in scientific and research fields would not have been possible without the technological instruments that we developed.\\
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What I tried to highlight is that we, as a society, need to really start to think that the \textbf{offline} and \textbf{online} worlds are becoming something \textbf{unified}, and in particular that we need to take action against the state of surveillance that is gradually becoming something seen as normal and that is done for our own good, because it is no more a problem of a digital parallel world, is a problem of the world we spent half of our day inside.\\
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-And responding to this with merely technological solutions can't be enough, because as we have seen the problem is at an higher level, is something that really concerns society and moral and ethical principles. What we can do is to promote a discussion on an ethical and moral level on the implications of surveillance and the loss of privacy.\\
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-We have seen that technology alone can't solve the problem, but neither we can expect that laws made by \textbf{non technical people} will solve the issue by simply adapting the norms that we have in a different context. The technology is evolving at a too high speed to simply try to keep the pace with it. We need to at least try to think ahead and to develop a discussion framework suitable for this purpose, starting by creating committees that have \textbf{heterogeneous} types of competences and backgrounds to try to sketch solutions and norms for these kind of problematic situations.\\
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-We really need \textbf{norms} and \textbf{guidelines} for the collection and management of personal information for on-line services and platforms. We can't cope with these situations only after problems arises. We need to be pro-active and to avoid to reach a point from which it would be difficult coming back.\\
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+And responding to this with merely technological solutions can't be enough, because as we have seen the problem is at an higher level, is something that really concerns society and moral and ethical principles of our society. What we can do is to promote a discussion on an ethical and moral level on the implications of surveillance and the loss of privacy.\\
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+We have seen that technology alone can't solve the problem, but neither we can expect that laws made by \textbf{non technical people} will solve the issue by simply adapting the norms that we have in a different context. The technology is evolving at a too high speed to simply try to keep the pace with it. We need to at least try to think ahead and to develop a discussion framework suitable for this purpose, starting by creating committees that have \textbf{heterogeneous} types of competences and backgrounds to try to sketch solutions and norms for these kind of problematic situations. What I really think we need in the short term are \textbf{norms} and \textbf{guidelines} for the collection and management of personal information for on-line services and platforms. We can't cope with these situations only after problems arises. We need to be pro-active and to avoid to reach a point from which it would be difficult coming back.\\
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In addition to this I really think that, until we find a solution to the surveillance problem, we need to really become aware that sharing some private moments and informations about ourselves on the internet may have some drawbacks, and we really need to be informed of the possible consequences of what we do. In particular we need to be aware that once we share something online often we need to take as granted that we will not be able to make it disappear. But this is something that relates with another aspect that is more correlated with the technological education of the society, and obviously needs another dedicated discussion.\\
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-In order to really conclude, what I have tried to show here is that we really need to deal with the problem of surveillance as soon as possible, because I am deeply convinced that the direction that we will follow will shape our society and us as individuals in the (not so distant) future. So regardless of our personal sensibility of the matter of privacy, we should try to at least think at what we really want, and understand that these problems are not less important that many others issues that our society is confronting nowadays and that we should dedicate to it the adequate care.\\
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+In order to really conclude, what I have tried to show here is that we really need to deal with the problem of surveillance as soon as possible, because I am deeply convinced that the direction that we will follow will \textbf{shape} our society and us as individuals in the (not so distant) future. So regardless of our personal sensibility of the matter of privacy, we should try to at least think at what we really want, and understand that these problems are not less important that many others issues that our society is confronting nowadays and that we should dedicate to them the adequate care.\\
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And I really believe that we should not loose this opportunity to decide what we want our \textbf{society to be} and what we want us to be.
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