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How to buy People's Data (Art Project) (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hi Lemmy,

intro I study fine art and for a project I want to buy some of the data from brokers from all of the art students at my university.

The point is to show people how easy it is to get that data.

questions: I have a list of emails and names. Can I go to data brokers and buy all of the data associated with those emails ot does it not work like that?* Can I then combine various datasets and build a better and better collection? How and where do I actually buy that data?

about the project at our annual university festival, I would have old desks with old PCs (like in a government building, or at the DMV) people can come and I will tell them something about them or even print them their data on an old looking printer.

Thank you

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That’s going to offend people in the wrong way, and could have some legal consequences. We all know how easy it is to get data. Maybe set up a bunch of cameras around a room capturing faces of people and displaying them on a projector with false info.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/73/35/a8/7335a8c16163604696fd47118a493da2.jpg

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah I am also afraid that some people will get mad.

And that camera idea is really good, thanks for that