“Dark Side of the Prism” is a Firefox Add-on that provides a soundtrack for our surveilled internet meanderings.
The public recently learned that the US National Security Agency’s on-going internet surveillance program, Prism, collects data from users of major websites.
Many of us already know that any data we might share– not just Facebook posts, but our search and click pathways and histories– could be compromised, but we do so anyway. We have normalized this ubiquitous surveillance.
“Dark Side of the Prism” uses Pink Floyd’s aural prism (Dark Side of the Moon) as a playlist to the NSA’s tracking efforts, serving as an auditory reminder of how our online activities are surveilled. What hypochondriac questions do you Google in the middle of the night; who do you cyberstalk? Consider those missives the lyrical component to our soundtrack.
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