Facebook wearables and the urge of ambient privacy

Facebook wearables and the urge of ambient privacy

Facebook has a new research project, Aria. Under the pretext of leading the way to the next generation of AR and VR wearables, it brings the problem of privacy to a whole new level, space. In a way, we can thank them. Maybe it will help to accelerate the birth of a...
Smart billboards: the real-life cookie

Smart billboards: the real-life cookie

Clear Channel is bringing its smart billboards to Europe (in the US they are active since 2016). They use anonymised mobile phone data to give advertisers better insights on where to place street billboards and follow up on consumer behaviour. The company claims they...
Divide et impera

Divide et impera

It is a great temptation to picture the digital divide as somebody walking hours to load Internet Explorer on Window 95 in a remote hut. Unfortunately, the digital divide takes also the shape of your aunt forwarding pseudo-science on Whatsapp. Last year I worked on...
Into the wild privacy

Into the wild privacy

I’d like to think of privacy as an experience, taking place in a free off-the-record space where we can just do and be. An experience implies a range of experience, a range of possibility where experience can actually take place. A range of possibilities welcomes in...
Electric Flanerie

Electric Flanerie

What are your feelings with presence and traceability? I am not talking about mere privacy matters, but a sense of agency, self-awareness, liberty. Disappearing is becoming a fine art, an act of freedom. In our Millennials workshops, it keeps coming up. In order to...