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Inspired by: blogs » Nano-enabled privacy invasion

version: 1 / created: 2009-10-06
id: #164 / version id: #164
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Originally submitted by: Rafael Popper
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Source of inspiration

Internet Blogs

The source of the Wild Card is

http://www.futureforall.org/nanotechnology/risks.htm

Headline

(max. 9 words)

Nano-enabled privacy invasion

Description

(approx. 150 words)
Please describe the Wild Card (approx. 150 words)
Virtually undetectable surveillance devices could dramatically increase spying on governments, corporations and private citizens.

Keywords

privacy, nanotechnology, surveillance, spying, security

Likelihood

Closest timeframe for at least 50% likelihood
Please use one of the following options:
now-2025

Type of event

Human planned (e.g. terrorist attack or funded scientific breakthrough)

Type of emergence

please select (if any) describe related trend or situation
An extreme extension of a trend/development/situation
(e.g. Increased global warming leads to a total ban on fossil fuels)

Type of systems affected

Human-built Systems - E.g. organisations, processes, technologies, etc.

Classification

Undesirable

Importance

please specify:
please select
Level 3: important for the European Union
Level 4: important for the whole world