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2015-01-26
by PAUL JOSEPH WATSON | JANUARY 23, 2015
Harvard Professor Margo Seltzer warned that miniature mosquito drones will one day forcibly extract your DNA on behalf of the government and insurance companies as she told elitists at the World Economic Forum in Davos that privacy was dead.
Davos, the destination for Reasonable People.
Seltzer,
Does he have a brother named Alka?
a professor in computer science at Harvard University, told attendees, “Privacy as we knew it in the past is no longer feasible… How we conventionally think of privacy is dead.”
Seltzer went on to predict that in the near future, mosquito-sized robots would perpetually monitor individuals as well as collecting DNA and biometric information for governments and corporations.
I welcome our mosquito-sized robot overlords. I think a fly swatter would work very well on one.
“It’s not whether this is going to happen, it’s already happening,” said Seltzer on the issue of pervasive surveillance. “We live in a surveillance state today.”
The professor added that miniaturized drone technology should be used for benevolent purposes, such as sending the same device into an Ebola ward to “zap the germs”.
With frickin' lasers.
Fellow Harvard academic Sophia Roosth also warned that an era of “genetic McCarthyism” was on the way as a result of people’s personal genetic information being available to governments via the Internet.
Posted by:Deacon Blues

#7  I'm thinking whatever was in the Drinks in Davos could be sold on the black market.
Posted by: 3dc   2015-01-26 20:49  

#6  Prob a Suicide/Kamikaze Micro-Drone which will begin releasing biometric, etc. signals to orbiting SATWAR + Ground assets before being swatted in righteous human indignation.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-01-26 20:42  

#5  Did the Professor used to post here? He had peculiar sexual theories as well as bio-robotic leaps.
Posted by: Shipman   2015-01-26 17:56  

#4  Stupid beyond words.
The government would just have to say; "Everyone must get insurance."
The insurance companies would just have to say: "Everyone we insure must have a blood test."
At some point if you avoid the system you're gonna be pretty far off the grid as to be harmless.
Within a decade they'll have just about everyone without the expense of mosquito drones.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2015-01-26 14:59  

#3   I wonder if mosquito drones could be turned into weapons of mass destruction with infectious payloads.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418    2015-01-26 13:53  

#2  Why is automation always a bad thing?
These are a great way to deploy a vaccine for Stupid.
Posted by: Skidmark   2015-01-26 12:56  

#1  Mind the thigh gap Ms. Roosth and you'll probably retain your privacy. I recommend legs crossed and minimal jaw flapping. Thanks for the Davos take-away.
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-01-26 12:10  

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