Intention

“Privacy is very important to us.”  

-Mark Zuckerberg

AllThingsD (June 2010) 

Privacy has been a very crucial segment of social media and yet is one of the most overlooked aspect. What happens to our digital data after we leave? Who controls it? Why? We all care about our personal information. As we delete an image from the social media we still have a lingering thought of what if it still exists in the universe of digital data as a trace somewhere? The project aims at starting this conversation amongst larger groups instead of solidary wanderings. It aims at creating awareness amongst the people as well as making agencies realize the importance of our data.  

Our central idea is to allow an agency to speculate on the effects of holding onto and releasing private data persistent to a user without their knowledge. We are trying to do this by providing them with a firsthand experience of making their personal digital data available publicly. 

The agency we are trying to address this to is the recently most debated social media network: Facebook. We are trying to build a public park/monument that reveals day to day digital transactions of Mark Zuckerberg, including very specific data like how much he spent on a coffee at a specific cafe on a specific day using his GPS location and Credit Card transactions. This monument becomes critical in making these agencies realize how they are impacting our lives and after-lives by making our data immortal.

It also focuses on curation of digital legacy and the formatting of the same to make it more accessible and relate-able to a laymen audience.