Essais Documents La Souverainete Numerique

DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY "The Internet isn't an addition to the world as we know it. But a replacement of it. The Internet has now started a phase of substituting our economic systems [...]. The great recession we've experienced in the last five years will seem modest in comparison to the cataclysm to come. The Internet is siphoning away our jobs, our personal information, our private lives and our intellectual property. We will live through this upheaval which will bring an end to our current social and economic model. Is there an alternative? Yes."Taking this disturbing theory as his starting point, the author sheds light on the role of powerful, invasive databases that he calls résogiciels. They accumulate and exploit vast amounts of data about users, therefore providing one of the most effective and reliable tools for predicting behaviours and trends. Individuals are merely "data cattle". As most of these résogiciels are American, the whole world is freely surrendering its economic and political freedom to the United States. Pierre Bellanger puts forward a variety of solutions to re-establish our digital sovereignty. Born in Boulogne in 1958, and a pioneer of independent radio in the late 1970s, Pierre Bellanger went on to become a media and internet entrepreneur. He founded and is currently CEO of Skyrock, and Skyrock.com is the leading social network for blogs in France. His first internet service company was set up in 1994 in collaboration with France Télécom.