Our most recent STEEP Report was just published this week on the future of surveillance technologies – RFID, GPS, facial recognition, biometrics and more.
Our bottom line: these technologies will give business and government tremendous new capabilities and significant new liabilities. We need a dialogue sooner rather than later (even with everything going on today!)
Shortly, Competitive Futures will release a report on the future of Big Brother Technologies. Between facial recognition software, satellites, cameras and biometrics, we are alarmed at how much our social systems need to evolve to properly manage these new technologies.
In the meantime, read Bruce Schneier's thoughts on "the myth of the transparent society." The real question is about the power imbalance between authorities and individuals, and how a real dialogue is necessary at once.