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@@ -17,5 +17,5 @@ The immediate risk in this scenario is that an employer may not hire us due to a
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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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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?
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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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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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