Le Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam a récemment publié le livre: Sniff Scrape Crawl – on privacy, surveillance and our shadowy data-double:

“Today, the border between the public and private is porous. Unlike the ominous spectre of surveillance depicted in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, current methods of information gathering are much more subtle, ‘friendly’, and woven into the fabric of our everyday lives. Customer cards give instant access to discounts, while shopping habits are simultaneously registered. Through behavioural tracking, Amazon tells us which books we might like, Google uniquely tailors its advertising and search results, and Last.fm connects us to people with similar music tastes. Immersed in social media, we commit to binding contracts and agree to ‘terms of use’ that would baffle a lawyer, if anyone actually bothered to read the legalese. Nonetheless, having sealed the blind deal with a click, we Twitter our subjectivities in less than 140 characters, contact our long lost friends on Facebook, and mobile-upload our geotagged videos on YouTube. Where once surveillance technologies were associated with the agencies of the government and the military, the web has fostered a participatory and less optically driven means of both monitoring and monetizing our intimately lived experiences”

(Sniff Scrape Crawl contient des textes de Nicolas et Seda, et bien d’autres )

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