There isn't a week that goes by without us receiving a call from an unknown number with offers to change electricity companies or get improvements from telephone companies. Technology experts have warned us multiple times with that mantra that says if a service is free, then we are the product, and yet, we don't listen to them. Every day we click the 'accept' option several times when we enter a website or download a mobile app without knowing what 'cookies' imply. Nor do we bother to read the very long conditions we sign every time we consent to the use of this data. We have normalized being asked to fill out forms to become clients of shops and supermarkets in exchange for discounts. We are aware that all this has to do with the use of our personal data, but we have accepted it docilely as an inevitable inertia. From now on, however, there is no excuse to say that you do not understand this dark world that lives by devouring our personal data. Reporter Carles Tamayo, author of the magnificent documentary series How to Catch a Monster, in which he pursued the pederast Lluís Gros, now explains to us what kind of companies obtain our data, how much they are worth, and what they do with it. Now we can know where our life, which we believe to be private, ends up, and what we are accepting.He does it in a new episode of Se nos ha ido de las manos, his program on La 1. Tamayo once again achieves journalistic brilliance. In the chapter El activo eres tú, the reporter collapses Arenys de Mar to show how people are capable of selling their souls to the devil for a pittance. The gas station sequence is very powerful and symptomatic: it illustrates what we do every day through much more subtle strategies.The report has the ability to clearly explain very complex and dark business dynamics. It does so with the virtue of not lying or working with hidden cameras. It shows professional generosity by giving prominence to its entire team throughout the work process. It uses research methods that require creativity and organizational complexity. And, to top it all off, it's all wrapped in a patina of well-measured sense of humor. Tamayo doesn't do it to make fun of people, but because he has a way of looking at the world, with a certain distance, that provokes comic perplexity. It's that laugh to keep from crying in the face of the system's miseries.The reporter, always advised by a lawyer and specialists in the subject he investigates, has created a company that functions as a wildcard depending on journalistic priorities. Through the not-so-innocent Voltor & Voltor, he participates in market dynamics to understand how it works and how it takes advantage of people. The results are devastating. He already demonstrated it with the first chapter on the real estate world and now with data brokers. With the old follow the money strategy, Tamayo does much more than criticize the system. The reporter still tells us more about the human condition.

The Catalan government has acknowledged that 6,771 personal data records were mistakenly leaked from the grant database of a website belonging to the Ministry of Economy and Finance. As reported by TV3 and confirmed by ARA with sources within the department, this leak also explains the initial service outage and subsequent sudden disappearance of one million Generalitat grant records—an incident that caused considerable uproar and a wave of speculation. The leak came to light following the widespread use of Subvencions.cat, a public aid search engine created by Gerard Giménez, which used Generalitat data. Suddenly, records began disappearing from the site overnight. The executive generically pointed to "a technical problem", without specifying.

A new campaign has been launched to leak the personal data of Spanish politicians. After several cyberattacks exposed the data of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and members of his government a few months ago, this time the victims have been regional presidents and high-ranking officials, including Isabel Díaz Ayuso, according to reports. published by Eldiario.esThroughout Friday, a second wave of leaks has been made public, affecting the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, members of his team, as well as former Minister José Luis Ábalos, Santos Cerdán, and his former advisor, Koldo García. The first leak, according to the online publication, occurred on a website specializing in publishing this type of database. Besides information on the President of the Community of Madrid, the leak also includes data on the President of Andalusia, Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla; the President of Aragon, Jorge Azcón; the President of Castile and León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco; the President of the Valencian Community, Juan Francisco Pérez Lorca; the acting President of Extremadura, María Guardiola; the President of Navarre, María Chivite; and the Lehendakari (President of the Basque Government), Imanol Pradales. The leak affects a total of 47 people, and the published information varies depending on the individual. In Ayuso's case, for example, only her personal email address is revealed. But in Pradales' case, data is even included for a person the cyberattacker has identified as her partner. As for other regional presidents and councilors, including some from Catalonia, there is an abundance of national identity card and telephone numbers, as well as home addresses, car details and license plate numbers, and bank account numbers, according to the published information.

Feeling dizzy in the face of technological developments is stupid. That's how the techno-optimist manifesto that went viral in 2023 makes you feel. A document promoted by Marc Andreessen, a serial entrepreneur known for being the father of the Netscape browser and Facebook. This manifesto uses an epic tone to present a series of statements based on the premise that technological progress is the only hope for humanity's great problems. To save humanity, it is necessary to let entrepreneurs do their work, in complete freedom, trusting in the proper functioning of free markets that have proven over time to adapt and evolve. This manifesto enthrones money as the driving force of economic growth that cannot be stopped. From the perspective of the manifesto, thinking about the social consequences, possible inequalities, or injustices, are unjustified fears that only make it more difficult. In fact, the document describes regulation, sustainability, social responsibility, and ethics as "zombie ideas," a remnant of communism.