Self Straight?: The companies behind platforms, smartphones and the Internet of Things are constantly tracking all our movements. With a digital footprint, one can determine a person's access to credit, transportation, social services or health care. We lose our individual freedom and autonomy.
Edward Ashford Lee: The Coevolution: The Entwined Futures of Humans and Machines
SYMBIOSIS: We must think differently about both man and the computer. Their being is more entangled than we think, and both change and adapt to the other.
: The Health Data Committee recommends the establishment of a national platform for health data, under dissent. Completely wrong focus, says leader of the Norwegian Association for Medical Genetics.
: The Center Party and party leader Trygve Slagsvold Vedum believe in a majority for the proposal for a statutory obligation to accept cash. If there is no prestige in the case.
: "You can do nothing but communicate encrypted – I take it for granted that all open communication has already been intercepted," says filmmaker and journalist Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen.
: Secure solutions that take care of privacy in health surveys are required by law and crucial for the trust of the participants and the general population. It weakens an important, informed debate when old and erroneous claims about the Health Survey in Nord-Trøndelag and the Norwegian Mother and Child Survey are reproduced.
: Will we in the future be sorted on the basis of our genes? Genetic research can provide new treatment methods for serious diseases, but to get there, our genomes must be mapped.
: A growing commercial market allows people to submit self-tests for cheap money and get answers to everything from disease dispositions to earwax type.
: A deeply tragic story of an ordinary 15-year-old raises important questions about whether the free distribution of information should prevail over other principles.
: Digital media has increased the amount of information available about us – and raises the need for a debate about our right to disappear into oblivion.