Smart phones are the precursors of the chip under the skin?

In recent years, more or less since the web has become "participatory", network users have been gradually more and more accustomed to surrender their privacy in exchange for a service.

Consider only the transition from MySpace - where ' a user's identity is hidden behind a nickname, and there is very little real information saved - in Facebook, where each user uses his real master data and where data is collected on our interests, and finally the birth of geo-localized social networks (Foursquare, Buzz), in which even give participant in the entire network on our true displacements.

Alongside this trend, smart phones are born: mobile-computer is replacing our old phones, which allow us only to call or send SMS.


Smart phones integrate almost always a GPS antenna, exploiting the idea of genius “app "and we are driving towards a real revolution in the way of communicating.

Recently, however, is a scandal that should make us reflect on the implications of what we are going to meet him speaks of the discovery of a hidden file on devices   Apple,   Google and now Microsoft, where they recorded the movements of the users of such devices.

The associations that form the right to privacy as their reason for being, are on a war footing and there are those, such as  Privacy International , wrote a letter to Steve Jobs open .