25 euros AUSTRIA 2020 - Big data

25 EUROS AUSTRIA 2020 - BIG DATA

The Internet creates endless possibilities and provides instant explanations by putting the world at our fingertips. But as we browse the web, we leave visible traces that companies use to learn about our individual preferences by analyzing the resulting large data sets, which means that users lose their privacy and autonomy. Big Data, the latest edition of the best-selling Silver Niobium series, highlights the dangers and drawbacks of the digital revolution.

Our lives are digitized in such a way that it is virtually impossible to remember how we once managed during our previous analog existence and imagine a world in which handheld devices do not exist. The Internet opens up new possibilities for everyone, but the data collected is usually stored digitally and can be analyzed with special software. Therefore, before we delve deeper and deeper, we should ask ourselves the following: While I am learning on the Internet, what is the Internet learning about me?

On its niobium core, the obverse of Big Data features a human eye representing surveillance on one side and the biometric iris recognition method on the other, while the silver outer ring is designed like a camera lens. The reverse of the coin shows people under surveillance, which is recognizable from the 20:20 running time on the left edge of the outer silver ring. In the foreground of the niobium core, one of a series of human silhouettes is dotted with squares symbolizing personal data collected about that person.