The Cambridge Analytica case shows that almost anyone –private companies, governments, non-state organisations– with access to users’ data and a certain degree of technical sophistication can carry out the «psychographic advertising».
The world economy seems to be rebounding definitively from the Great Recession, but many and varied risks still threaten consolidation of the recovery in 2018.
There is a race, essentially between China, the US and Europe, to acquire new technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI). It will determine economic (and military) dominion in the not too-distant future.
The EU is proving to have a capacity for global influence on normative issues. Its internal regulations are in some cases being adopted beyond its borders.
The debate about post-truth, disinformation, fake news and manipulation favours the manipulators. Mistrust cannot simply be offset by more information.
Regulating and controlling the editing of the human genome (CRISPR-Cas9 system) must also form part of global governance.
One hundred years down the line, the dystopia of central planning and total control cannot be written off as extinct. Will they be reborn under big data?
Following the decision to remove 86% of hard currency from circulation on 8 November, India is hauling itself out of this quagmire of demonetisation.
In a 5,800-word declaration, Mark Zuckerberg said that Facebook aspired ‘to build the social infrastructure for a global community’.
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