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Case 01/04. Diary ↔ footprint

Дневник ↔ след

Art

Artist
Hasan Elahi
Work
Tracking Transience
Year
since 2003

After the FBI questioned him in 2002, Elahi began publishing his every move himself: meals, rooms, coordinates. Self-surveillance became an alibi.

Code

digital footprint

Every day your phone records where you were, who you wrote to and what you photographed. Some of it goes to apps you forgot about.

Action

Open settings and revoke location access from apps that do not need it.

Откройте настройки и отключите геолокацию лишним приложениям.

The label in the room

The same hash is printed at the foot of the label. If they match, nobody changed the text.

Elahi publishes his every move so surveillance has nothing to find. Your phone does the same without asking. Revoke location access from apps that do not need it.

Элахи сам публикует каждый свой шаг, чтобы у слежки не осталось тайн. Ваш телефон делает то же самое без спроса. Откройте настройки и отключите геолокацию лишним приложениям.

SHA-256 of the Russian label text a3650fd8fe0461445556e28fc90adcede95337e5835cdc226a8369c39693f469

In the room

Infographic “One day of a smartphone”, made by the team

Made by: [ИМЯ КУРАТОРА ЗАЛА 01]

Rights

Permission required

Elahi's works: a card with a QR code; the infographic is ours

Sources

  1. mith.umd.edu