DataGate

This ebook collects my articles published before or on the affair called journalistically "DataGate" and refers in particular to the statements of Edward Snowden. A young analyst of a contractor of the American NSA revealed that the system of interception and control - especially network and telephone conversations - by an American agency through a product called Prism. The shock for these facts to tell the truth did not last long, and it is cleverly scaled the issue for two specific reasons. The first, which really (even through PRISM) Americans have in hand a lot of information embarrassing for Western governments, individual ministers and heads of state and government and major corporations and financial institutions, and so it is not advisable "to bet too much feet. " if at first the governments especially Europeans had clamored for clarity, in a few weeks almost everyone has glissando, induced to relent by the fact that the US had two arrows to his bow: to reveal how and how those same governments carry out checks and interceptions, and stop the strategic cooperation in intelligence. The second reason is that most of the media do not have first-hand news, nor of investigation on this issue and on this matter, and you are reduced to simple repeaters laconic statements policies of their governments. In other words they had to choose whether to raise (and thus overstate the role) of the Guardian - who had the scoop - or resize. In this choice again are the readers to pay, and occurs throughout the ineffectiveness of a print now little able to do investigations and to engage in investigative journalism. This is when there are actual cases of collusion between information services and information professionals (as in the case of Renato Farina - who worked as a reporter and wrote articles commissioned by the CIA). Actually this story that was "sold" to the public in a greatly reduced in the form of "espionage government" has a much greater extent, and respect our way and our approach to the whole system of the Internet, new technologies, and the choice - conscious and individual - to provide such data, and in terms that manage our privacy and our information on the network. The lower awareness and capacity for choice by the individual, the greater the capacity that - while not wishing - provide "network", the governments as to private companies, our information and personal data. And it is precisely for this reason that the DataGate he should at this time be deepened and developed and told better and more. Almost as a form of "civic education to the network", in an interconnected world and in which we are all in the network, and in a system where it is never neither clear nor defined where you start the public and the private ends, as companies and governments. With this in this ebook is divided into three parts. In a first part ripercorrerò briefly some events relating to those who "publicly or complaint relates to the authorities illegal or fraudulent activity within the government, of a public or private or a business" - the CD. whistleblowers. In a second part riproporrò Articles General on issues of network and privacy already published on the Unit. In the third part of the articles, some published and some unpublished, of my investigation on this DataGate, hoping to give it an overall idea of its real size and its social significance, economic and global.