Digital Trackers

What would Perec say if he was alive today to see our data-centered world? Numerous companies and agencies – NSA, telecoms, advertizers and marketers, stores, and so on – are capturing detailed data about behaviors of people: phone numbers dialed; ads clicked on the web; Twitter posts; GPS tracks. But their goal is not the science of un-expectional... See more

Surely enough, upon Inspect Element inquiry, most of these sites were running multiple third-party cookies, collecting the data of their visitors and selling their personal information. It is not enough for these websites to depersonalize the missing and deceased, reducing their names into analytic benchmarks; website visitors themselves become met... See more