[privacy] Tracking Himself: The 'Orwell Project'

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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This is a very fascinating aspect of... the state of things.

Via The Washington Post.

[snip]

Soon after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. government mistook Hasan
Elahi for a terrorist. On a return trip from Europe, the Bangladesh-born,
New York-raised artist was flagged at the airport and interrogated. To
prove his whereabouts, Elahi showed them his Palm PDA, a device that
yielded enough information -- from calendar notes of appointments and
classes he teaches at Rutgers University -- to placate his interrogators.

But shaking off the feds would not be easy. In the months after the first
round of questioning, the FBI subjected Elahi to more interviews and to a
lie-detector test. Though he passed the test, his paranoia grew.

The artist hatched a plan. If Big Brother wanted proof of his coordinates,
why not surveil himself? Recording his own moves could, theoretically, seal
his alibi. And, when conceived of as art project, the action might satirize
federal intelligence gathering.

[snip]

More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/11/AR200705110
2030.html

- - ferg

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