Procrustes' Cocoons:
What’s going on inside these billions of clueless abstracta?
– #Exceptionally Minimal Reminder[1] on Real Self-Determination –
Eventually, applying abstract knowledge prompts kind of digital purification techniques corresponding to transposing and transforming human beings into abstracta to be known, stored, available and managed as information. Such technomorphosis expropriates the original human being of self-determination, incorporating the individual's personal data into somewhat of a cocoon – a cluster of digital sociation – being on sale, remaining at everyone's disposal. (W. Brockjan, The Orwellian Decade and the Future of Science: Despotism‘s Wishful Thinking – Notes on the Political Reality of Science Fiction – Perry Rhodan, a case in point)
Making a long story short, ever heard of the Right to Informational Self-Determination[2]? How about Legal Informatics[3]? Who knows their respective inventors ... anyone ... anyone[4]?
In fact, the Statutory Primate of Informational Self-Determination as much as its according facilitation by means of Academic Subject and Chair in the early 1980s, had evolved from Germany's Large-Scale Public and Political Debate on The Census 1983[5] in the 1970s[6].
Back in the day, Siemens[7] and the Bavarian Government's Interior Ministry had already assumed a Strategic Alliance on Geoinformatical Holistics conducive to pervading Germany's Societal Individuals, Entities, Relations and Attributions down to the bone.
Privacy Think Tanks featuring Computer and Information Scientists, Mathematicians and Lawyers (age groups 1930s to 1950s) eventually suspected The Census 1983 to be disguising a discreet resumption of the National Socialists' blueprint of Smart Cardfile Registry[8].
More specifically, the Nazi Regime's Setting of Societal Informatisation had preceded and permitted the Holocaust's Manufacturing of Mass Selection, Deportation and Murder of Six out of Eleven Million Jews. Nazi Germany's and IBM's Political Business Venture yielded the kind of Grid-Computing[9] having paved the way to Auschwitz ... The Holocaust.
Computing ... Data Processing ... Wiring ... Informatisation ... Digitisation ... Big Data ... Artificial Intelligence. Quite likely, the latter term AI will substitute for the previous ones, thus remaining in common use … sorry … becoming vested in … sorry … substituting for common sense.
The Nazi German census of 1939 took on a similar statistical project, but with the assistance of computer technology. It set out to count the Reich’s population in order to control it and to purge it — mainly of Jews and Roma — before exerting its murderous efforts on populations beyond its borders. To effect this, the Reich partnered with Dehomag, a German subsidiary of the American IBM, which owned the patent to the punch card tabulator, a sort of analog computer that counted holes punched into cards. Each citizen was represented by a card, and certain holes on the cards represented certain markers of identity. Column 22 addressed the religion rubric: hole 1 was Protestant, hole 2 Catholic, and hole 3 Jewish. Shortly thereafter, this census information was used to identify and deport Europe’s Jewish population to the death camps. (Edward Snowden, Permanent Record)
Considering Human Beings to be dealt with merely a Cocoon of coherently though freely and randomly assortable as much interpretable Human Data to be processed and used, still begs a variety of questions on the Determination and Application; Utilisation and Compilation; Predestination and Affiliation; Ownership and Copyright of such Human Cocoons of Digital Bits and Pieces of Information.
Now, wait a minute ... who are the System Manufacturers? Who are the System Controllers? Who are the Wizards of Oz ... sorry ... Masters of AI? Who's to own the Command of and Copyright on one's ... sorry ... our (!) life and living?
One may expect Democratic countries' imports of especially Chinese[10] and other State of The Art AI Supply Chains[11] and Technology to be creepingly undermining Constitutional Human Rights[12], killing Human Lives softly across the globe.
Now what[13]? Mahna mahna[14]?!
You cannot be serious[15]!
Where will this road lead to, for whom and how will it end?!
AI won't hold the answer, instead, it'll be a comprehensively Rotten Mindset, a Human(oid) Hybrid of Academic Arrogance, Technical Necrophilia, Political Populism and Business Profiteering.
Could you imagine what would happen, if a Right-Wing or Fundamentalist[16] Party were given Electoral Licence to be participating in the Formation of Government, being a Member of a Coalition of Governance, coming into Power?!
Instead, the NSA maintained that because you had already “shared” your phone records with a “third party” — your telephone service provider — you had forfeited any constitutional privacy interest you may once have had. And it insisted that “search” and seizure” occurred only when its analysts, not its algorithms, actively queried what had already been automatically collected. (Edward Snowden, Permanent Record)
The following alphabetical bullet point-classification and collection of elemental documentation is to render support at withstanding The Masters‘ of AI arbitrary desires of Social Eingineering, Societal Domination and Steady Dictatorship, as follows:
#Anti-Corruption[17]
#Asylum[18]
#Auditing[19]
#Capitalism[20]
#Challenges[21]
#Climate[22]
#Competition[23]
#Currency[24]
#Democracy[25]
#Digitisation[26]
#Ethics[27]
#Finance[28]
#Future[29]
#Gender[30]
#Insurance[31]
#Internet[32]
#Journalism[33]
#Justice[34]
#Labour[35]
#Law[36]
#Markets[37]
#Media[38]
#Pensions[39]
#Proximity[40]
#Risk[41]
#Security[42]
#Social Media[43]
#Society[44]
#Supply[45]
#Sustainability[46]
#Tax[47]
#Third World[48]
#Trade[49]
#Transformation[50]
#Vulnerability[51]
The United States has a census, too, of course. ... The census, which is officially under the jurisdiction of the Senate, was ordered to be performed every ten years, which was roughly the amount of time it took to process the data of most American censuses following the first census of 1790. This decade-long lag was shortened by the census of 1890, which was the world’s first census to make use of computers (the prototypes of the models that IBM later sold to Nazi Germany). With computing technology, the processing time was cut in half. Digital technology didn’t just further streamline such accounting ... Mass surveillance is now a never-ending census, substantially more dangerous than any questionnaire sent through the mail. All our devices, from our phones to our computers, are basically miniature censustakers we carry in our backpacks and in our pockets — census-takers that remember everything and forgive nothing. (Edward Snowden, Permanent Record)
Human beings being set in a virtual framework ... analog minds coping with a digital world ... decent people using smart solutions ... dum voters electing political idiots ... bleak minds wishing for a bright(er) future ... natty nightmares comforting wishful thinking ... as you know, it’s a highly complex case ... throat clearing[52].
Will digitisation serve justice for all[53] ... feed two billion poor people ... provide labour, shelter, security ... guarantee liberation, emancipation, equal opportunity ... permit happiness, perspective, self-fulfillment ... ? ... spread love, peace n soul[54] and rock n roll music[55] ... satisfaction[56] ... ? ... talkin‘ ‘bout your generation[57] ... in a gadda da vida[58]?
Haha![59] Take care of your illusion[60] ‘til the work is done[61]!
How about concluding with a couple of lateral[62] thoughts yielding some odd questions?
Why do Social Media Addicts and Maniacs still presume owning[63] their respective content[64]?
Has Zuckerberg ever awarded Facebook Users royalties for having helped him earn a f#ckin’ fortune on having sold[65] their contents and souls?
Hmh, copyright[66] ... right (?) ... never seems to’ve been an/at issue.
Nevermind.
By the way, do Broadcasting Stations and Newspapers pay Royalties to those People proving pivotal to their daily Breaking News and Revenues?
Do Photographers pay Royalties to Those displayed in their Everday Shootings?
Have e.g. Bezos', Gates', Musk's and Zuckerberg's Scholars ever dared to claim Royalties on having awarded These Folks the kind of Intellectual Property eventually yielding Billions of Dollars of Fortunes of theirs?
From whence it happens, that they which trust to books, do as they that cast up many little summs into a greater, without considering whether those little summes were rightly cast up or not; and at last finding the errour visible, and not mistrusting their first grounds, know not which way to cleere themselves; but spend time in fluttering over their bookes; as birds that entring by the chimney, and finding themselves inclosed in a chamber, flutter at the false light of a glasse window, for want of wit to consider which way they came in. (Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan)
Do you get it?!
Perhaps, one could find a little bit more to it, than just some laid back humour in failure.
Frame of Reference
Homebodies Blinded by the (Screen) Light!
Behemoth’s Unresolved Simplexities!
Fiat Iustitia Et Pereat Mundus
Withstanding Êpitomes of Destrûctiveness!
[1] On The Author Effect: Recovering Collectivity (cyber.harvard.edu): A man might write the works of others, adding and changing nothing, in which case he is simply called a 'scribe' (scriptor). Another writes the work of others with additions which are not his own; and he is called a 'compiler' (compilator). Another writes both others' work and his own, but with others' work in principal place, adding his own for purposes of explanation; and he is called a 'commentator' (commentator). Another writes both his own work and others' but with his own work in principal place adding others' for purposes of confirmation; and such a man should be called an 'author' (auctor).
[2] The Normative Status of Self-Determination in International Law - A Formula for Uncertainty in the Scope and Content of the Right (corteidh.or.cr) ––– The Right to Informational Self-Determination in the Context of Selected Judicial Decisions and Practical Background (mtak.hu) ––– The Right to Self-Determination Historical and Current Development on the Basis of United Nations Instruments (google.com) ––– Self-determination (idea.int) ––– Protection of Personal Data Through Implementation of the Right to Informational Self-Determination - Identifying Opportunities and Pitfalls (giga-net.org) ––– Online Privacy - Towards Informational Self-Determination on the Internet (papers.ssrn.com) ––– Exploring mental models of the right to informational self-determination of office workers in Germany (pub.h-brs.de) ––– related: Consultative Committee of the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with Regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data (T-PD) (coe.int) ––– related: European Commission, The Right to be Forgotten and the Informational Autonomy in the Digital Environment (jrc.ec.europa.eu) ––– related: Motivating Users to Manage Privacy Concerns in Cyber-Physical Settings (epub.jku.at)
[3] Legal informatics (Wikiped) ––– Legal Informatics - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession ––– Legal Informatics (cambridge.org) ––– European Legal Informatics Study Programme (EULISP) (daad.de)
[4] "Anyone, anyone" teacher from Ferris Bueller's Day Off - YouTube
[5] Census in Germany (Wikiped): In the 1980s, attempts at introducing a census in West Germany sparked strong popular resentment since some felt that the questions to be asked were quite personal. Comparisons to Orwell's 1984 were drawn. Some campaigned for a boycott, or for intentional false statements. The Constitutional Court stopped the census in 1983, and required a revision of the process. The modified census was eventually held in 1987. ––– related: Informational self-determination (Wikiped) ––– related: Bundesverfassungsgericht - Decisions - Decision on the constitutionality of the 1983 Census Act – related: Data protection in Germany I - The population census decision and the right to informational self-determination (google.com)
[6] Special note on Germany: Having emerged from the Protests of 1968, the 1970s brought about the Red Army Faction, the pinnacle of surging Left-Wing-Terrorism and the geoinformatical ingeniuity of Horst Herold, Head of the Federal Criminal Police Office (Germany) in lockstep. Among international adepts and well-informed circles, Herold’s unparalleled halo reflected on having developed and established the ultimate Standard of Police Computing in terms of Geoinformatical Grid Computing (Wikeped).
[7] Note: Online Applications on Audio (mpeg3/mpeg4) to Text Conversion should render a sufficient translation of this elemental resource available in German only. Interview with Prof Dr Wilhelm Steinmuller: The census wasn‘t supposed to be conducted at all and was just a by-product. More likely, former administrative plans of the Reich Security Main Office and Statistics Office dating back to 1935 were to be continued. At the time, the SS / Schutzstaffel (Wikiped) – Waffen-SS (Wikiped) / was into Geoinformatics without accomplishing any significant progress. ... Eventually, the technology was available. ... Using data processing, the plan was specifically to map the Federal Republic of Germany in geoinformatical terms of capita, location and time permitting individual allocation within a range of 50 metres in diamater throughout a citizen’s lifespan. Assuming IBM's claims to be true, what would happen then? Then, I got my hands on a Documentation from the Bavarian Information System, written by SIEMENS. It was told to written by the Officials of the Prime Minister’s Office but turned out issed by SIEMENS Engineers. It stated: "We are planning to gain unlimited access to all data available on all residents, horizontally and vertically." ... You know, data isn’t dangerous, only their users are a threat. > Interview mit Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Steinmüller (maroki.de) ––– | ––– Note: Online Applications should render a sufficient translation of these resources available in German only. ––– related: Computing for the Class Enemy. The Stasi, Siemens and the Transfer of EDP Know-How during the Cold War > Programmieren mit dem Klassenfeind. Die Stasi, Siemens und der Transfer von EDV-Wissen im Kalten Krieg ––– related: German Computer History > Deutsche Computergeschichte (binaerwelt.de) ––– related: History of the Software Branch in Germany > Die Geschichte der Softwarebranche in Deutschland (uni-muenchen.de) ––– related: Cultural History of the Police Computer > Kulturgeschichte des Polizeicomputers (ethz.ch) ––– related: Anatomy of State Security – History, Structure and Methods — GDR's Ministry of State Security Handbook > Anatomie der Staatssicherheit – Geschichte, Struktur und Methoden — MfS-Handbuch (stasi-unterlagen-archiv.de)
[8] Edwin Black, IBM and the Holocaust (wordpress.com)
[10] We Have Been Harmonised: Life in China’s Surveillance State by Kai Strittmatter – review | Politics books | The Guardian ––– China’s Algorithms of Repression (hrw.org) ––– How China Developed its ‘All-Seeing’ Surveillance State (thewirechina.com) ––– The Virtual Panopticon in China - Surveillance Through the Securitisation of the Internet (mappingchina.org) ––– The Tech Site That Took On China's Surveillance State (syr.edu)
[11] Privacy and Surveillance in a Digital Era - Transnational Implications of China’s Surveillance State (kuleuven.be) ––– Chinas Surveillance Ecosystem - The Global Spread Of Its Tools (atlanticcouncil.org) ––– What Explains Popular Support for Government Surveillance in China? (xu-xu.net) ––– Exporting the surveillance state via trade in AI (2023) (mit.edu) ––– Importing Chinese Surveillance Technology - Are Central Asian States on the Path to Digital Authoritarianism (harvard.edu) ––– Digital Neocolonialism - The Chinese Surveillance State in Africa (up.ac.za)
[12] Human Rights in China (ohchr.org) ––– Human Rights in the Age of Surveillance: China's Expansion of Technological and Normative Power (nyu.edu)
[13] CSET - Designing Alternatives to China's Surveillance State (georgetown.edu) ––– Sheena-Greitens_Chinas-Surveillance-State-at-Home-Abroad_Final (cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com)
[14] Muppet Songs: Mahna Mahna (1969 original) [HD] - YouTube
[15] John McEnroe coins "You cannot be serious" - YouTube
[16] Unfortunate as much as paradox case in point: Isreal ––– related features on Cal Caleido’s Substack: Damocles‘ Exit Light! - Cal Caleido’s Substack – Humpty Dumpty's Hebrew Hip Hop! - Cal Caleido’s Substack
[17] Embracing Digitalisation - How to use ICT to strengthen Anti-Corruption (giz.de)
[18] Digitalisation of asylum procedures (asylumineurope.org)
[19] Digitalisation of European reporting, monitoring and audit (europa.eu)
[20] Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
[21] Bridging the divide - new evidence about firms and digitalisation (bruegel.org)
[22] Climate justice and digitalization (oekom.de)
[23] Competition policy for the digital era (europa.eu) ––– Shaping Competition Policy in the Era of Digitalisation (beuc.eu)
[24] The digitalization of money (bis.org) ––– The Impact of Digitalisation on the Monetary System (europa.eu) ––– A legal framework for the digital euro (europa.eu)
[25] Smart Parliaments Data-Driven Democracy (liberalforum.eu)
[26] Digitalization - A Concept Easier to Talk about than to Understand (scitepress.org) ––– Europe's Digital Decade and autonomy (europa.eu)
[27] Digitalisation and Responsible Business Conduct (oecd.org)
[28] Financial Markets, Insurance and Pensions: Digitalisation and Finance (oecd.org) ––– Eurodiaconia-Report, Ensuring Financial Inclusion for the Most Vulnerable (eurodiaconia.org)
[29] Digital technologies for a new future (cepal.org) ––– UNIFE Vision Paper on Digitalisation (Unife)
[30] Bridging The Digital Gender Divide (oecd.org)
[31] Financial Markets, Insurance and Pensions: Digitalisation and Finance (oecd.org)
[32] The Open Internet as cornerstone of digitalisation (europa.eu)
[33] The Impact of Digital Platforms on News and Journalistic Content (accc.gov.au)
[34] Digitisation and Accessing Justice in the Community (ajc-justice.co.uk) ––– Digitalisation of cross-border judicial cooperation (europa.eu)
[35] Digitalisation and changes in the world of work (europa.eu) ––– The Effects of Digitalization on Employment and Entrepreneurship (conference.iza.org) ––– The Impact of Digitalisation on Job Quality (epsu.org)
[36] What are the issues relating to digitalisation in company law? (europa.eu)
[37] The Digital Single Market and the digitalisation of the public sector (europa.eu) ––– Exclusion in Digital Markets (whiterose.ac.uk)
[38] Digitalization and Media Change - Ambivalance towards Convergence (diva-portal.org)
[39] Financial Markets, Insurance and Pensions: Digitalisation and Finance (oecd.org)
[40] The Power of Digitalization in the Age of Physical Distancing (iom.int)
[41] WorldRiskReport 2022 - Focus: Digitalization - World | ReliefWeb ––– Managing Risk in Digital Transformation (deloitte.com)
[42] The digitization and cybersecurity of physical access control (axis.com) ––– Cyber Security as The Key Enabler for Digitalization (unibw.de)
[43] Collecting, Analyzing and Selling Personal Data in the Age of Big Data - Global Trends, Selected Examples, Risks and Challenges (crackedlabs.org)
[44] Digitalization and Society (oapen.org) ––– Digitalization and Society (uni-frankfurt.de) ––– Social Inclusion, Digitalisation and Young People (coe.int)
[45] Accelerating Digitalization Across the Maritime Supply Chain (worldbank.org)
[46] Digitalization and sustainability - A systematic literature analysis of ICT for Sustainability research (oekom.de) ––– The digital dimension of the National Recovery and Resilience Plans (europa.eu)
[47] Impact of Digitalisation on International Tax Matters (europa.eu) ––– Tax Challenges of Digitalisation(oecd.org)
[48] Digitalization and Digital Skills Gaps in Africa (brookings.edu)
[49] Accelerating Trade Digitalization to Support MSME Financing (wto.org)
[50] The Digitization of the World from Edge to Core (seagate.com) ––– UNGIS Dialogue on the Role of Digitalization in the Decade of Action: Accelerating the achievement of the SDGs through better collaboration in the UN System (unctad.org) ––– National Strategy for Digitalisation - together in the digital development (en.digst.dk) ––– Transforming territorial thinking through digitalisation (espon.eu) ––– Addressing the challenges of the digital transition in national RRF plans: Measures to support digitisation of SMEs (europa.eu) ––– Digital transformation (europa.eu) ––– Note: Talking about "independent" studies – Vodafone Institute - Digitising Europe 2019 - Visions and Perspectives for a Digital Society (vodafone-institut.de)
[51] Vulnerable Society - When Computers Became Dangerous The Swedish Computer Discourse of the 1960s (lu.se) ––– Computer unreliability and social vulnerability - ScienceDirect ––– Assessment of Social Vulnerability (diva-portal.org) ––– Vulnerable Society - Ethics and ICT Governance - What kind of Information Society ––– Technology and Intimacy, Choice or Coercion (hal.science)
[52] Throat Clearing - YouTube
[53] Metallica ...And Justice For All [Full Album] - YouTube
[54] Soul Train Don Cornelius 1977 - YouTube
[55] The Beatles - Rock and roll music Live HQ - YouTube
[56] The Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (Official Lyric Video) - YouTube
[57] The Who - My Generation - YouTube
[58] Iron Butterfly 'In A Gadda Da Vida' 1969 - YouTube
[59] Tom Hanks - Idiot Laugh - “The Money Pit” - YouTube
[60] Frumpy (feat. Inga Rumpf) - Take Care Of Illusion (1971) - YouTube
[61] The Work Is Done - YouTube
[62] Lateral thinking (Wikiped)
[63] Who Owns the Media on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter? (nyccounsel.com) ––– cases in point: Facebook terms and conditions: why you don't own your online life (telegraph.co.uk) ––– TikTok under scrutiny by NMPA over potential copyright theft (altpress.com)
[64] Case in point: 42 Facebook Statistics Marketers Need to Know in 2023 (hootsuite.com) ––– Everything Facebook Owns: Mergers and Acquisitions from the Past 15 Years | TitleMax
[65] Mark Zuckerberg leveraged Facebook user data to fight rivals and help friends, leaked documents show (nbcnews.com) ––– Facebook discussed cashing in on user data, emails suggest | Facebook | The Guardian
[66] Copyright (Wikiped) ––– History of copyright (Wikiped) ––– AI under Scrutiny - Understanding the Risks of ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Co. - My Digit@l Bl#g (mydigitalblog.de)