Web Resident Hang Do Thi Duc

Me And My Facebook Data

Your Facebook data is available for download! This blog documents explorations of and experiments with this data. I will analyze and examine the information Facebook provides with alternative visualizations, so we can better understand the real value of our data profiles. Posts are by Hang Do Thi Duc, designer, artist, technologist.

Me And My Facebook Data #2

What’s more important: the privacy of users or their security? That’s a hard question and it probably depends on many parameters. Security reasons are often presented to defend some kind of violation of our privacy. The government would say that mass surveillance by the government is necessary to find terrorists, for example, or, more project specific: Facebook would argue that they need to track the user’s location and their web activity to effectively protect the account information against hackers or

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Me And My Facebook Data

The hunger for data is insatiable. We are no longer just buying things with money, but are paying for our digital experiences with the data we produce online. The data delusion even now touches the art world with museums tracking their visitors, which might even influence curatorial decisions. Still, most people don’t have a relation to their »Data Selves«. Artist and technologist Hang Do Thi Duc now wants to change this with her project Me And My Facebook Data, that

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