{"id":322,"date":"2014-05-02T12:23:23","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T16:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/surya-mattu\/"},"modified":"2014-05-12T08:27:20","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T12:27:20","slug":"surya-mattu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/surya-mattu\/","title":{"rendered":"From The Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em>Surya Mattu<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>Anonymous data is a myth. From The Dark is a project that offers insight into the hidden mechanisms &amp; power struggles within our current communications infrastructure. It brings to light the data we generate with our smart devices &amp; what it reveals.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/itp-thesis.s3.amazonaws.com\/sam921-1399049129\/CoverScreenShot.png\" width=\"80%\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Description<\/h3>\n<p>Edward Snowden&#39;s NSA document leaks in 2013 ignited the public conversation around a national and global surveillance culture, verifying much of what security professionals have been saying for the past two decades. Corporations and governments have access to a previously unprecedented amount of personal data. I investigated how this data is accumulated, how it&#39;s used, and how we can better understand our current technological environment. There is inherent value in making these processes more transparent, as a way to inform people&#39;s choices  and help them engage in this conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surya Mattu Anonymous data is a myth. From The Dark is a project that offers insight into the hidden mechanisms &amp; power struggles within our current communications infrastructure. It brings to light the data we generate with our smart devices &amp; what it reveals. Description Edward Snowden&#39;s NSA document leaks in 2013 ignited the public &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/surya-mattu\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From The Dark<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10710],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heather-greer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/thesis2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}