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Transparency

Posted on: September 24, 2009

Transparency. As the internet seeps into our homes, as we fill out more and more online forms to buy airplane tickets, our favourite singer’s album, or just to connect to the latest trendy social network, one question remains : where does the information go ? Who can have access to our details ?

“Happy Birthday, Marc. On December 2008, you will be 29. You don’t know me, it’s true, but I know you very well. You are not lucky, Marc. You were the first one who was chosen to be Google portrayed by “Le Tigre”. It’s very simple : we choose an anonymous person and we tell everything we know about his life thanks to the tracks that he left, voluntarily or not, on the internet… (…) After all, it is your fault, you should have been careful. ”

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This is what Marc L. could read last year in “Le Tigre”, a french magazine.  This article was written to warn us about our lives transparency on the internet.

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  • Cécilia: well done, nora! this is a great video resume!
  • Camille: Cou cou ! Very interesting article, I didn't even know that Les Echos tried to launch an e-newspaper ! I will always remember a passage of Minority

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