https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xyYkWTobWk&feature=youtu.be

Description

Location$$ is a multiplayer web-based experience designed for providing creepiness and unease once you agree to share your location.

Location$$ starts with a simple dialogue box, which is the first thing showing up every time a new application is installed, asking our permission to get access to location data in exchange for customized services normally with vague or incomplete prompts. We all know once we agree, our data is updated in every few seconds, aggregated, shared and sold to help advertisers or even hedge funds. Mass location surveillance has morphed into a data collection and analysis machine as smartphones have become ubiquitous and technology more accurate. Each anonymous location sharing could become personal location analysis, revealing the most intimate part of your personal life.

The site gives you street view based on your location, when you click on others’ mouse, their street view replaces yours and ] location name stays. When other people click, they’ll leave some trails too, which means once it's shared, everyone knows.

Besides, open questions exists that for example, in this global pandemic, mass location surveillance is taken in action to maintain social health. People turn on location data because it makes things functional. What attitudes we should hold for location surveillance? What if location sharing and analysis become fully transparent?

IMA/ITP New York

ITPG-GT.2469.001

Veillance

Privacy/Security

https://youtu.be/KikKPdSjCY0

Description

A CryptoParty is a grassroots decentralized movement that was started to educate the general public about digital privacy and cryptography topics that are pertinent to their lives. It is traditionally a series of workshops that are offered in person. However, we are the in the social distancing age, so the Politics of Code Spring of 2020’s class decided on hosting a web-based CryptoParty aimed at students and educators.

First we start with a general introduction on digital privacy, what it means and why it should matter to you. Then we dive into exactly how platforms like Zoom, Blackboard, and learning analytics like NYU classes are using your data and what the digital privacy concerns that come with using them are.

The last section of our webpage helps explain to users tips on how to keep your data safe while working from home. This is done using common cryptographic advice (explaining strong passwords to users and setting up two-factor authentication for example) and then the user is presented with specific comparisons between the various tools that are available to the users (the different messaging apps, VPNs, video apps, etc)

IM Abu Dhabi

IM-UH.3310

Politics of Code

Privacy/Security