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\section{Conclusions}
To conclude I would try to better detail the implications of my thesis.\\
I'm not saying that we have to reject all forms of on-line 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.\\
What I tried to highlight is that we, as a society, need to really start to think that the \textbf{off-line} and \textbf{on-line} world is 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.\\
And responding to this with merely technological solutions can't be enough, we really need to promote a discussion on an ethical and moral level on the implications of surveillance and the loss of privacy.\\
We don't have a ready to use solution for this problem, 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.\\
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.\\
In particular 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 opinion in the matter we should try to at least think what we really want, and understand that these problems are not less important that many others issues that our society is confronting with.
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 ourself to be.