By dint of wanting to accumulate data before making a decision, governments are becoming colossi with feet of silicon. They are at the mercy of the reliability and of the precision of these mega data on the one hand, and at the mercy of the interpretations that are made of them on the other.

An overview by anthropologist Claire Somerville, Executive Director of the Institute of Gender Studies in Geneva.

The trust crisis that is hitting the Internet today is mainly due to the multiple scandals involving the use of data.  Restoring this indispensable trust, says Lionel Maurel, a lawyer and co-founder of "La Quadrature du Net", means putting the notion of the Common Good back at the heart of thinking. And this requires the social portability of data.

In a media ecosystem dominated by Facebook - half of the population only gets information through social networks - it is not the democracy but the French Republic that is in crisis. And with it a constitution that is no longer in line with the citizens' expectations. Behind this crisis, observes Fabrice Epelboin, an entrepreneur, social media specialist and teacher at Sciences-Po Paris, there is the question of dignity in the digital age.