The transhuman promise of ‘superhuman’ abilities will be reserved for the ‘chosen class’, while the masses merge with technology designed for a constant state of surveillance and control.
Category: Technology and Privacy
A company that gained notoriety for selling access to billions of facial photos, many culled from social media without the knowledge of the individuals depicted, faces major new restrictions to its controversial business model.
Residents in New South Wales are in line for a whole-of-government Digital ID that will let them connect their biometric details for access to services.
Australia and 60 other governments have signed a new ‘Declaration for the Future of the Internet’, vowing to create “a single, global internet” system.
The biophysicist shocked the world in 2018 by announcing he had used CRISPR genome-editing techniques to alter the genetic makeup of a single-cell embryo to give birth to twin girls.