User:Lidia.Pereira/GPS/WS
SPION
"Online Social Networks have become an important part of daily digital interactions for more than half a billion users around the world. The various personal information sharing practices that online social network providers promote have led to their success as innovative social interaction platforms. At the same time, these practices have raised much critique and concerns with respect to privacy and security from different stakeholders.
Studying and addressing these privacy and security concerns in online social networks is the research challenge that we are undertaking in SPION. Specifically, we plan to tackle the responsibilization of individuals with the task of mitigating privacy and security concerns in online social networks by putting the focus on the responsibilities of service providers and stakeholder organizations."
http://www.cosic.esat.kuleuven.be/spion/
Liberationtech
"Lying at the intersection of social science, computer science, and engineering, CDDRL's Program on Liberation Technology seeks to understand how - and to what extent - various information technologies and their applications - including mobile phones, text messaging (SMS), the Internet, blogging, GPS, and other forms of digital technology - are enabling citizens to advance freedom, development, social justice, and the rule of law. The program examines technical, legal, political, and social obstacles to the wider and more effective use of these technologies, and how these obstacles can be overcome. And it will evaluate - through experiment and other empirical methods - which technologies and applications are having the greatest success, how those successes can be replicated, and how less successful technologies and applications can be improved to deliver real economic, social and political benefit."
http://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/docs/about_libtech
Europe Vs. Facebook
"Are EU Data Protection Laws enforceable in Practice? This may be the main question that europe-v-facebook.org is now about. The right to data protection is a fundamental right in the European Union, but at the same time very little companies respect it. Facebook is just one of many that have a bad reputation when it comes to the handling of users’ data.
So the question arises if users are just too lazy to do something about it, or if the laws are in practice unenforceable?
We unintentionally landed in the middle of a big experiment after filing 22 complaints against Facebook in Ireland, because of breaches of the most basic privacy rules. We happened to look at Facebook for a number of reasons, but the results are very likely exemplary for a whole industry.
While it is clear by now, that no normal citizen is able to follow through with such a proceeding, we are still working to get our final decision today. We want to know if our fundamental rights are respected and enforced against tech giants like Facebook, or if our rights are only existing on the paper."
Wages for Facebook
Wages for Facebook condemns the turning of our subjectivity into profit under false pretences of sharing and friendship. Their demand of wages for Facebook is an attempt to make visible our labor as users.
"The wage gives the impression of a fair deal: you work and you get paid, hence you and your boss are equal; while in reality the wage, rather than paying for the work you do, hides all the unpaid work that goes into profit. But the wage at least recognizes that you are a worker, and you can bargain and struggle around and against the terms and the quantity of that wage, the terms and the quantity of that work."
International Data Union
"The creation of data is an extension of labour. As our societies move from production to service economies ‘who we are’ and ‘what we do’ becomes as significant a commodity as physical and cognitive labour. At the moment the value and control of this commodity is regulated by national law. There is little faith in the ability of governments to administer this law effectively due to a lack of technical and social understanding, inability to respond to a rapidly changing environment combined with short-term policy agendas, pressure from commercial organisations and pressure from other extra-national interests. Therefore, we have established the first International Data Union to represent the rights of individuals, outside the control of commerce or the state."
P2P Foundation
"The P2P Foundation is an international organization focused on studying, researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices in a very broad sense."
The P2P Foundation vouches for a principle of guidelines pervaded by ideas of "distributed networks", networked participation, a new public domain and information commons, the spreading of free software principles to more areas of human activity and a more cooperative social order not subjected to the market or the state.
http://p2pfoundation.net/P2P_Foundation:About
Facebook Demetricator
"The Facebook interface is filled with numbers. These numbers, or metrics, measure and present our social value and activity, enumerating friends, likes, comments, and more. Facebook Demetricator is a web browser addon that hides these metrics. No longer is the focus on how many friends you have or on how much they like your status, but on who they are and what they said. Friend counts disappear. ’16 people like this’ becomes ‘people like this’. Through changes like these, Demetricator invites Facebook’s users to try the system without the numbers, to see how their experience is changed by their absence. With this work I aim to disrupt the prescribed sociality these metrics produce, enabling a network society that isn’t dependent on quantification."
http://bengrosser.com/projects/facebook-demetricator/
Facebook Facedata Download
"Facebook Facedata Download: A Self Portrait comprises the 49,785 HTML characters that form my profile picture in Facebook’s facial recognition database and hereto declares that iAm an algorithm. i ͣ ͫ a downloadable archive of multiple identities: an analyzable series of data coordinates and color numerics. a renderable map of bits and type, tags and comments in network exchange if and only if in fracture of gamut and Euclidean bedlam."
http://rhizome.org/artbase/artwork/58044/?ref=search_title
P2P Gift Credit Card
"This project proposes an alternative financial model based on the Peer-to-Peer architecture for a more equal sharing of wealth in society. It offers an innovative participatory system using counterfeit virtual money. By issuing a visionary and illicit type of VISA credit card, the project introduces Gift Finance, a monetary policy based on free universal credit without interest. Gift Finance is the democratic creation of money directly regulated by ordinary people in order to redistribute wealth in society. The website P2PGiftCredit.com allows people to generate unique virtual card numbers and send them to others via digital platforms. A limited edition of physical plastic P2P Gift Credit Cards are available by request at P2PGiftCredit.com, and they have been distributed at public actions and world wide via snail email."
http://www.paolocirio.net/work/gift-finance/p2p_gift_credit_card.php
Loophole4all
"This artwork unveiled over 200000 Caymans Islands companies and it reversed global finance machination for creative subversive agendas. The website Loophole4All.com promoted the sale of real identities of anonymous Cayman companies at low cost to democratize the privileges of offshore businesses by forging Certificates of Incorporation documents for each company, all issued with the artist's real name and signature. This performance generated international media attention, engaged an active audience and drew outrage from authorities on the Cayman Islands, international law and accounting firms, PayPal and real owners of the companies. Further, the artist interviewed major experts and produced a video documentary investigating offshore centers to expose their social costs and to envision solutions to global economic inequality. In the offline art installation, the paper trail of the project is displayed with prints of the counterfeited Certificates of Incorporation and the documents of the scheme set up for the operation."
http://www.paolocirio.net/work/loophole-for-all/
Global Direct
"Global Direct illuminates the idea of worldwide participation in networked governance within the tradition of utopian artistic visions.
The artwork is presented as a visionary political program that structures global direct democracy through the opportunities offered by distributed network technology for participatory decision-making, transparent accountability and civil awareness.
To illustrate the conceptual work the artist composed a series of flowcharts of new alternative protocols, procedures and policies for actualizing a global direct democracy. These flowcharts are informed by a research on contemporary forms of democracy, which the artist assembled and presents as a documentary component of the project. Further, the artist promotes Global Direct as a visionary political movement by producing appealing slogans, visuals and videos with statements by prominent advocates of participatory politics."
http://www.paolocirio.net/work/global-direct/
Oil Standard
"Oil Standard is a web browser plug-in that converts all prices from U.S. Dollars into the equivalent value in barrels of crude oil. When you load a web page, the script seamlessly inserts converted prices into the page. As the cost of oil fluctuates on the commodities exchange, prices rise and fall in real-time."
http://turbulence.org/Works/oilstandard/
Tuboflex
Game description: "Year 2010. The need of mobility has grown to excess since the first years of the millennium. That's why Tuboflex inc., the world's leading Human Resources Services organisation, created a complex tube system that make it possible to dislocate employees in real time, depending on demand."
Rita Raley ("Tactical Media"): "The quickest of players can manage to stave off the ending of the game for a time, but all attempts to play end with the central character begging on the street. The game rhetoric is clearly pedagogical and persuasive, as with all political or activist games. The lesson of this game in particular is that “life” has been mobilized for work, that the techniques for biopolitical management of the body include the tools of the postindustrial workplace, and that postindustrial labor is not in fact radically heterogeneous."
http://www.molleindustria.org/en/tuboflex/
GINI-SA
"The GINI-SA project works towards the vision of a Personal Identity Management environment where individuals will be able to manage their own identity space (Individual Digital Identity - INDI), where User-specific identity services will be available in the INDI space with certain privacy protection and privacy enhancement provisions."
Ubermorgen
Ubermorgen is a swiss-austrian-american collective of internet artists whose use of tactical media in the context of internet art aims to reach very large audiences. For example, their work Amazon Noir consisted of a software both that made five to ten thousand inquiries per book, assembling all individual parts into a complete work which was then shared in Bit Torrent.