Transparency Day (not a Christmas story) | Trends
After the experiment carried out in that already distant 2019, the Government established that one day a year it would monitor all the mobiles of its inhabitants. The date was marked on all calendars. That day, those lovers did not have their clandestine date, nor did that camel distribute the substances he used to, nor did that foreman take the undocumented people to the greenhouses by van, nor did the pointers stop at the neon lights club.
They did not believe the official version that the data was treated anonymously. It was an exaggerated prevention. The initial goal was just a mobility study. And deep down it didn't matter: the internet giants they had been collecting each data for some time of each of its users. They knew their movements, who their friends were, what comments they made, what movies they watched, what news they read.
Some years, not so many, after the experiment, it was already ubiquitous facial recognition It was comfortable: you didn't have to carry your card or keys, because your face identified you and the doors opened when you arrived. The Great Algorithm recognized the face of any pedestrian, knew where he was going, and directed autonomous taxis where they were needed. Chinese technology: by then the West had surrendered to the new superpower, which not only exported its innovations, but its social and political model.
Mortgages were granted, or not, after a program examined the creditworthiness of the client. Insurers demanded access to customer data in real time, to monitor if they took care of themselves or how they drove their car (manual driving had not yet been prohibited). Personnel selection was automated. There were people excluded without knowing why.
One day he banned the use of cash. The clandestine lovers did not know how to erase the traces of their appointment at the hotel. Dirty businesses such as drug dealing, prostitution or the exploitation of immigrants made gold the hackers, experts in laundering money and blackening it, also complicated.
The 21st century was not very advanced when all devices, all faces and all transactions were already registered by system. That distant day when mobile tracking began was called Transparency Day and is a holiday. We arrive at this perfect society, in which no one has anything to hide because there is no way to hide anything.
The Great Algorithm not only knows what you do: it is ahead of what you are going to do. What you are going to vote too. The day came when the old urns were dispensed with, and on the agreed date the seats were distributed as dictated by the big data. It was necessary to reform the Constitution, where until then the word algorithm did not appear. Now it figures as one of the pillars of the new democracy. It's nice to live without feeling any danger.
