Best way to fight Big Brother? Blog your life.
May 23rd, 2007 by stevebAn art professor at Rutger’s, Hasan Elahi was stopped after arriving back in the US on a flight from the Netherlands. The FBI told him he was a suspected terrorist - his response? Prove them wrong by tracking his every movement via pictures and GPS on his website, trackingtransience.net. “I’ve discovered that the best way to protect your privacy is to give it away,” he says. “It’s economics, I flood the market.”
May 23rd, 2007 at 3:53 pm
This is amazing!
Quick, someone call the ACLU and tell them to revise their global strategy..everyone flood the market with personal info!
May 23rd, 2007 at 7:43 pm
That’s totally funny - that is my exact same philosophy. Of course, I also figure that when it’s time to go, you will find me a born-again Christian named Sophronia selling real estate in Pahrump.
Just slip out of one identity and into another, leaving some identity theft ring in Nigeria holding one funky bag!