Why Privacy Matters
I’ve never really understood privacy concerns, as my Dad always used to say “if you’ve dont nothing wrong then there is no reason to worry”. Over the year’s I’ve modified this and formulated my own reasoning: “If people want to judge me on my choices and behaviours then that’s their problem”.
While this is all fine and good in a court or law, or a job interview, in a reasonably free and democratic society this art installation really rams home some of the more pernicious uses of social media technologies.
It’s taken me 10 years or so to wise up and be a bit less naive and utopian about technology.
Yes technology can set us free, but it can also be used by unfriendly regimes to snoop people with opposing views in some dark and scary ways. This interactive art-exhbit-machine is a lovely way to show how commonly shared Facebook material can be easily be turned into ‘infringement tickets’.
This is where a ‘Demolition Man’ authoritarian state meets Social Media, and it’s really thought-provoking,
(via Brighton Graphic Design & Illustration – Josh Harrison)
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