Future Crimes

[Future Crimes ]
Year: 
2015
Public: 
Publisher: 
Transworld Digital
Year of publication: 
2015
Pages: 
466
Moral assessment: 
Type: Thought
Nothing inappropriate.
Requires prior general knowledge of the subject.
Readers with knowledgeable about the subject matter.
Contains doctrinal errors of some importance.
Whilst not being explicitly against the faith, the general approach or its main points are ambiguous or opposed to the Church’s teachings.
Incompatible with Catholic doctrine.
Literary quality: 
Recommendable: 
Transmits values: 
Sexual content: 
Violent content: 
Vulgar or obscene language: 
Ideas that contradict Church teaching: 
The rating of the different categories comes from the opinion of Delibris' collaborators

In-depth and thorough study of the inconveniences caused by the exponential growth of computer technology applied to telecommunications. The author exposes, with great ease and abundance of anecdotes, the current situation in which large companies obtain benefits in the millions by trading with the data of social networks and, on the other hand, unscrupulous hackers use their computer skills to get a hold of the data of bank accounts, copy the content of the servers, break the right to privacy or supplant the identity of their victims. Goodman proves with facts (50 pages of citations) that currently all computer systems, no matter how protected, are vulnerable to cyber attacks. “Future Crimes” will consist of this invasion of privacy, using precisely as "Trojans" the same techniques of control and safeguarding of industrial secrets or economic funds, which reveal the position and customs of those who believe they protect themselves with them. In the final pages, the text offers a series of resources to minimize the risks described. Ideologically, the author's concern about the abuse of information technology by totalitarian governments is clear. As for moral reservations, only the anecdotes that briefly refer to crimes of pedophilia, voyeurism and other types of child harassment.

Author: Fernando Jadraque Sánchez, Spain
Update on: Nov 2019