21.5% of EU enterprises had ICT security incidents in 2023 – News articles
In 2023, 21.5% of EU enterprises experienced ICT security incidents resulting in different types of consequences such as…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #datadrivennews #digitalsociety #ict #Latvia #LV #Science #Technology
https://www.newsbeep.com/172541/
As the UK plans to introduce digital IDs, what can it learn from pioneer Estonia?
#UK #Estonia #Tech #DigitalIdentity #UKPolitics #DigitalID #TechPolicy #DataPrivacy #DigitalSociety #PublicTrust #UKGovernment #DigitalTransformation #AI #Innovation
https://the-14.com/as-the-uk-plans-to-introduce-digital-ids-what-can-it-learn-from-pioneer-estonia/
Recently shared in the artists against Gen AI FB group.
The Puppeteers are desperate to find a business case - ANY business case - to grift money for their largely ineffective and useless apps. The puppetry apps that churn out *fun* Vibes (Meta) or synthetic friends for the epidemic of datafied ***'hyper-individualized'*** loneliness are morally bankrupt tactics yet they are rolled out and no one thinks they have any power to stop the inexorable rise of 'AI'.
#robotwars #digitalsociety #politicalart #Streetart #graffiti #protestart
Self-checkout queues. Online check-in. Captchas. AI that writes and leaves you to fix the errors.
Each one promised ease. Each one became a chore.
I wrote about how convenience keeps turning into labour: https://medium.com/@Diogo_Mendes/the-labour-of-convenience-fa41ac97d465
#systems #writing #ethics #labour #work #critique #convenience #SystemDesign #futureofwork #digitalsovereignty #digitalsociety #society
All of our lives overlap in the Network Of Time
#HackerNews #NetworkOfTime #OverlappingLives #TimeConnectivity #DigitalSociety #FutureTech
MIT reports 95% of generative AI business projects fail. The gap between hype & impact is massive.
#AI #GenerativeAI #DigitalSociety #TechEthics #podcast #TheInternetIsCrack
ChatGPT-5 is being tuned to agree with you. Comforting or terrifying?
#ChatGPT5 #AI #DigitalSociety #Ethics #podcast #TheInternetIsCrack
#SurveillanceCapitalism #DigitalSociety #TechAndPower
CLICK, SCROLL, REPEAT
How We Became the Product
AI, Social Media, and the Illusion of Choice -The Dead Web
https://ariatycook.substack.com/p/click-scroll-repeat-how-we-became
3 công trình trọng điểm: Nền tảng hậu cần Bưu điện, Trung tâm dữ liệu mới, Phòng Truyền thống Bưu điện Việt Nam đóng vai trò quan trọng trong xây dựng Chính phủ số, kinh tế số, xã hội số.
#chinhphuso #kinhteso #xahoiso #vietnampost #digitalgovernment #digitaleconomy #digitalsociety #bưuđiệnviệtnam
Stoicism in the Age of Surveillance
Opening Insight
Fraud is a real threat. It costs governments billions, banks trillions, and citizens the security of their savings and identities. Each year, new scams emerge faster than regulators can write rules. Phishing, synthetic identities, deepfake voice calls. The methods multiply, and the losses mount. To counter this, institutions build stronger firewalls, stricter compliance checks, and ever-expanding webs of monitoring.
The justification is simple: we must protect the system. Yet each step forward in protection also tightens the circle around individual freedom. Every fraud-prevention protocol doubles as a surveillance mechanism. Biometric scanners at borders promise efficiency but normalize constant identification. Algorithms that track transactions to catch money launderers also record the intimate details of our lives.
Here lies the paradox. We want safety, but safety purchased at the cost of autonomy risks hollowing out the very dignity it is meant to protect. The surveillance that promises order may deliver conformity instead. And once conformity takes root, liberty is the first casualty.
This is not only a political question. It is also a philosophical one. What do we control in such a world? What must we endure, and what must we resist? In these questions, the ancient wisdom of Stoicism meets the modern dilemmas of surveillance society.
The Reality of Surveillance
We live in a world where fraud prevention has become the dominant justification for intrusive oversight. Banks are legally required to monitor transactions, flagging anything that looks unusual. Governments compel companies to store vast amounts of data under the banner of anti-money laundering laws. Social platforms scrape, analyze, and categorize human behavior to identify bad actors, and along the way, map our private lives in detail.
The scope of this monitoring expands quietly. Each new scandal, each fresh fraud, provides another reason to widen the net. A data breach here, a terrorist plot there, and suddenly a new law emerges requiring deeper access to personal information. It is rarely rolled back. What begins as targeted protection turns into default surveillance.
This is what scholars call surveillance creep. Small, justifiable measures gradually expand into permanent structures. ID checks at airports became biometric scans. Credit card fraud detection evolved into behavioral profiling. Fraud prevention in welfare programs led to predictive policing. Each step seems rational in isolation. Together, they create a system that treats every citizen as a suspect.
From a Stoic perspective, this is precisely the kind of external condition the individual cannot fully control. The structure of laws, the expansion of databases, the behavior of corporations, these belong to the domain of others. But to acknowledge this does not mean to surrender. It only means to see clearly what belongs to you, and what belongs to the system.
Stoicism as an Answer
The Stoics lived under empires, monarchies, and powers that dwarfed their personal agency. Marcus Aurelius, a philosopher-king, knew the tension of wielding authority while being trapped within the structures of history. Epictetus, born a slave, embodied the opposite perspective: stripped of freedom in every external sense, yet fiercely free in mind and soul.
Their philosophy was never about denial. It was about drawing boundaries between what is within your control, your choices, your values, your actions, and what lies beyond it. Stoicism insists that liberty is not primarily a political condition, but a moral one. A tyrant can chain the body but not the soul. A surveillance system can monitor your transactions, but it cannot dictate your principles.
This is where Stoicism speaks directly to our age. The cameras, algorithms, and compliance checks will not disappear tomorrow. Citizens cannot individually dismantle the systems of oversight. But they can refuse to internalize them as natural, inevitable, or justified. They can live without fear, without surrendering dignity, and without allowing the external to corrupt the internal.
To be Stoic today is to recognize that surveillance is real, and yet not absolute. It governs the external but cannot erase the inner life of conscience, character, and responsibility. That space remains sovereign.
Between Endurance and Resistance
Still, Stoicism alone is not enough. If we only accept external control, we risk confusing endurance with passivity. Marcus Aurelius reminded himself not only to endure but to act justly. Cato the Younger lived and died in resistance to tyranny, choosing death rather than surrendering to Caesar’s rule. Stoicism calls us to accept what cannot be changed, but also to resist what must not be normalized.
In our context, this means accepting that some surveillance is inevitable in a digital society, while refusing to accept that surveillance should be unlimited or unaccountable. It means using the tools we do control: voting, advocacy, encryption, decentralized systems, and the daily act of speaking against conformity. Endurance without resistance is resignation. Resistance without endurance is rage. The Stoic balance is to do both wisely.
The Ethical Cost of Conformity
Surveillance does not only strip privacy. It reshapes behavior. When people know they are watched, they act differently. They conform to expected norms, avoid risks, and suppress dissent. Over time, society becomes more obedient, but also less creative, less critical, and less free.
This is the quiet danger. Fraud may destroy wealth, but conformity destroys character. A free society depends not only on safety but on citizens willing to think, speak, and act without fear of punishment. The more surveillance expands, the more individuals hesitate. Self-censorship becomes habit. Habit becomes culture. Culture becomes silence.
A Stoic perspective sees this as the ultimate test. Can we act with integrity when watched? Can we choose freely even when algorithms judge us? Can we resist conformity by holding to values that surveillance cannot measure? These are not abstract questions. They are the daily choices of living under the gaze of modern systems.
A Citizen’s Compass
How then should a citizen live under surveillance? A Stoic compass offers guidance in three directions:
This compass does not guarantee freedom from surveillance. It guarantees freedom within surveillance, the kind of freedom no law or camera can take away.
Toward a Balanced Future
The future will bring more monitoring, not less. Fraud prevention will demand it. Artificial intelligence will power it. Quantum sensing may accelerate it. We cannot expect to turn back the tide. But we can shape the principles by which surveillance operates.
Here, Stoicism and liberalism must walk together. Stoicism teaches us how to live with dignity in systems we cannot fully control. Liberalism teaches us to design systems that respect dignity even while securing safety. Together, they form the ethical backbone of citizenship in an age of surveillance.
The task ahead is not to abolish oversight, but to demand proportion. To ensure that surveillance serves security without becoming control. To protect against fraud without erasing freedom. To preserve the conditions of human dignity in the very structures that seek to protect society.
Conclusion
Fraud prevention is real. Surveillance is real. Neither will vanish. But the true danger is not the camera on the wall or the algorithm in the server. The true danger is when citizens surrender both their inner freedom and their outer voice.
Stoicism tells us to endure what lies beyond our power. Liberalism tells us to resist what threatens our sovereignty. Together, they call us to action: to endure without despair, and to resist without hatred.
We live in the age of surveillance. But living as free people within it requires both resilience and resistance. Citizens must refuse to accept chains as inevitable, and refuse to believe that their choices do not matter. Surveillance may watch us. It cannot decide for us.
#agency #conformity #DigitalEthics #digitalSociety #ethics #fraudPrevention #liberalism #modernStoicism #personalFreedom #philosophy #Privacy #resilience #securityAndLiberty #stoicism #surveillance
Moderation: Marlin Mayer und Eneia Dragomir.
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Gefördert durch das Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt (BMFTR) sowie die Europäische Union.
#ShareCast #ZEVEDI #UrbanFuture #CityLab #SmartCity #UrbanData #DigitaleStadt #UrbanDevelopment #Datenplattform #OpenData #Stadtentwicklung #Digitalisierung #SmartGovernance #DigitalSociety
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Just returned from the Oxford-Berkeley Summer Doctoral Programme at UC Berkeley — two intellectually intense and energising weeks with PhD researchers and leading scholars from around the world.
Thanks to @oiioxford & @ucberkeley for creating such a generous environment. It’s rare to leave an academic setting feeling both exhausted and recharged.
#OxfordBerkeley #PhDlife #DigitalSociety #InterdisciplinaryResearch #AcademicCommunity #UCBerkeley #OII
Could AI destroy civilisation?
Not through war, not through code gone rogue—but perhaps through something far more familiar.
A reflection on trust, simulation, and the line between help and surrender.
https://pedroinnecco.com/2025/07/death-by-approximation-can-ai-destroy-civilisation/
#AI #AIethics #AIsafety #HumanJudgement #DigitalSociety #PhilosophyOfAI
Tim Cook says the AI revolution is “as big or bigger” than the internet, smartphones, cloud, and apps. Do you agree? What could this mean for society, business, education—and for us personally? #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalTransformation #DigitalSociety Source: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Tim Cook: Die KI-Revolution ist “so groß oder größer” als Internet, Smartphones, Cloud und Apps.
Eine starke Aussage – doch ist sie übertrieben?
Was meint ihr?
Stimmt ihr zu?
Welche Konsequenzen hat das für Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft, Bildung, Kultur – und für uns persönlich?
Auf was sollten wir uns vorbereiten?
#KI #KünstlicheIntelligenz #DigitaleTransformation #Apple #Zukunft #DigitalSociety #AIImpact #Technologiepolitik #Digitalisierung
Quelle: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-01/apple-ceo-tells-staff-ai-is-ours-to-grab-in-hourlong-pep-talk
Explore how surveillance culture shapes digital societies—impacting privacy, autonomy, and social trust. Uncover ethical concerns, data misuse, and the growing tension between security and civil liberties in the age of big data.
#SurveillanceCulture #DigitalSociety #DigitalPrivacy #PrivacyRights #MassSurveillance
https://www.scitechsociety.com/surveillance-culture-in-digital-societies-and-its-impact-on-privacy/
Ik luister naar 'How the Attention Economy Is Devouring Gen Z — and the Rest of Us' (The Ezra Klein Show) in de NRC Audio app: https://audio.nrc.nl/episode/138976756
This is a fantastic episode and highly recommended to everyone in #parenting or #education. #DigitalSociety
EU governments increased R&D allocations by 3% in 2024 – News articles
In 2024, the total government budget allocations for R&D (GBARD) across the EU stood at an estimated €127…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/26595/
Keep or toss: what do Europeans do with old devices? – News articles
It doesn’t matter what type of device people have, their main choice for disposal if not using it…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/19162/
