The Snowden case revealed to the world the massive use of our computer data through globalized surveillance programs1.
In an equally brutal way, the confinement has made everyone experience the weight of deprivations of liberty imposed by a global health event.
If, according to a fundamental ethical principle that “technologies must be at the service of the individual and society” rather than “enslaved by technological giants”2, blind trust in technology carries decisive risks.
Indeed, the uncontrolled use of these new statistical tools could lead to the legitimization of anti-democratic and freedom-reducing systems.