SURVEILLANCE AND TECHNOLOGICAL (R)EVOLUTION. IMPLICATIONS AND REPERCUSSIONS ON HUMAN RIGHTS.

Abstract

The impact of new technologies has generated disruptive effects on classic forms of surveillance. The surveillance models typical of modernity have been accompanied by unprecedented and pervasive control systems which, using the most powerful digital and IT levers, exercise unlimited and imperceptible power. In the era of post-modernity and the Internet, a new culture of surveillance was born with the exponential multiplication of controllers accompanied by the not entirely (un)conscious participation of those controlled. Against the backdrop of a scenario dominated by large "electronic eyes" and invisible power structures, the tension, at times irreducible, emerges between surveillance and the protection of rights. Hence the need to reflect on whether and how to preserve the “good” dimension of surveillance and, if anything, to build, alongside the power of the new “supervisors”, further spaces to guarantee rights and freedoms.