FIfF-Ko 1/2009 - The social impact of IT

Since the 9/11 attacks the world has been challenged with intrusive legislation upon civil liberties and increased use of surveillance technologies. As this development is proceeding rapidly, both from a legal point of view and a technological side, it takes more than parliamentary politics to pursue a democratic and open discussion about these matters. This is where the civil society, or rather the civil societies, need to collaborate. Thus, I will propose that engineers, software-programmers and people in the private sector of Information Technology could co-operate with activists, human-rights organisations and citizen-journalists in a very productive manner. I will also give concrete examples on how such activities have been pursued in Sweden during a controversy on the role of signals intelligence. [...]

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