My data are still mine?

November ’90 on the occasion of COMDEX Fall Bill Gates introduced the his vision “information at your fingertips”, few months later, to stress the concept, he said that the real wealth in the future will be access to information, people will no more ask “how many dollars do you own” but “how much information can you access”. In a glimpse this vision become reality and twenty-six years later “information” is still a powerful “transversal” asset: business, trade, policy, security, tourism, health, … rely on information, reliable information. In a single generation we witnessed the evolution of information technology from mainframes exclusive patrimony of space agencies and super-calculus centres to owning in their pockets a device ten thousand times more powerful, capable of observing and recording video, audio, location, and motion. These devices can communicate with nearly any other digital device from household appliances even to cars. Collectively we have the ability to store, access, and process more data than humanity has created in its entire history. The actual “visual” trend is producing an incredible amount of photo/video documentation of our everyday life; does this mean goodbye privacy?