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Oggetto: Transparent City: The ethics and aesthetics of mass-surveillance
technologies.
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Transparent City: The ethics and aesthetics of mass-surveillance
technologies.
by Derek Lomas
Few realize that mobile phone carriers track the location of all mobile
phone users. Tracking is, in fact, federally required by the FCC (e911
mandate) to enable authorities to locate the position of mobile phones
during emergencies. Furthermore, because mobile phone carriers keep this
location data for years, there is a recorded history of all the places
mobile users have been at least, while their phones were on.
While recognizing the benefits of enabling emergency responders to
locate 911 callers, the fact that every mobile phone user is tracked at
all times is disturbing. While Americans can take some comfort in
constitutional privacy protections, other countries have no legal
restrictions preventing the transformation of mobile phone technology
into a massive apparatus for government control.
TRANSPARENT CITY is a prototype surveillance interface for tracking and
visualizing all mobile phones within a city. This project seeks to
explore the dangers of mass-surveillance by openly developing critical
components of such technologies, particularly the advanced
data-visualizations required for mass control. It is hoped that the open
development process will make legible the power of mass- surveillance
and open up this questionable technological progression to political
engagement.
more...
http://www.glowlab.com/lab2/issue.php?project_id=150&issue_name=14
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