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can drive us more to the absolute despotism prophesied by orwell <strong>and</strong> huxley than to a world of real liberty<br />

which we all wish.<br />

We therefore must accept the challenge of the telematic revolution, <strong>and</strong> instead of choosing regressive<br />

solutions -which as a matter of fact are not applicable because the phenomenon is irreversible- we must try to<br />

find the real mechanisms which will protect the actual liberties of all the citizens.<br />

In this chapter we will submit two of these mechanisms. They will be considered mainly from a practical<br />

point of view of technical steps to be taken, while the fundamental grounds <strong>and</strong> possible social repercussions<br />

of these mechanism will be treated in detail in another essay.<br />

3. An independent justice, for the protection of the personalized monetary archives.<br />

The control of population is included in the same social-technological development of monetary telematics<br />

which is being introduced, whether we like it or not.<br />

Therefore, the problem to be solved does not depend from control but from the use which will be made of it<br />

<strong>and</strong> from the legitimate authority or illegitimate power which will determine such use.<br />

Among the several social <strong>and</strong> political organizations which could take up this function, we choose here<br />

justicial authority, which, being actually independent from the state, could objectively take in charge the total<br />

monetary archives of the geo-political society.<br />

Justice has no direct control on the present of people <strong>and</strong> it only punishes their documented past. And even<br />

if it is really independent from the state -from the executive <strong>and</strong> the legislative power- it cannot avoid the<br />

severe technical frame of law, from which it depends totally <strong>and</strong> solely.<br />

For these reasons, justice can become the most adequate authority to effectively control:<br />

1. Respect to private secret <strong>and</strong> to personal intimacy to which every person has a right. Private secret<br />

can only be made public in two well defined cases:<br />

a. when there is a written authorization of the person concerned on the document which is<br />

made public;<br />

b. when there is a firm sentence by the court.<br />

2. Respect to professional secrecy, which obliges <strong>and</strong> is a right for every person, whichever his/her<br />

profession.<br />

It would also be advisable that, on the long run, all the teams forming the telematic monetary network -<br />

whether machinery or human teams- should depend from justice.<br />

Justice therefore will be the only institution with an access to the whole of the data recorded by the telematic<br />

monetary network. The right of access of the state <strong>and</strong> of private citizens will be constitutionally limited to<br />

the data of an analytical-statistic type, that is without reference of names nor personal identification.<br />

The fact that justice should be the sole guardian of the telematic monetary information <strong>and</strong> the only authority<br />

to have full access to the network, does not mean that this right of access should be used indiscriminately.<br />

Law should establish that justice can only use the information it guards with reference to a real case of a<br />

process. When an instructing judge has founded reasons to peruse monetary documents related to the case he<br />

has in h<strong>and</strong>, this judge, <strong>and</strong> only he, will be allowed to examine the relevant documents. Only these<br />

documents will be made public in the corresponding court.<br />

It is clear, however, that many will consider deceptive the possibility of a neutral, objective, unselfish justice.<br />

Cases of corruption among the members of judicial authority are not unknown.<br />

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