In and out of Kabul Afghanistan 2005-2012

Jan 20, 2009

Whose story?

Loss of autonomy, theft of identity - security is increasingly a virtual issue. How auditable is our daily life on the Internet? Le Monde reports the recent publication by the Parisian periodical Le Tigre of its first Google biography - "grâce a toutes les traces - les milles details" left by a young employee of a French architectural firm.

http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2009/01/17/un-internaute-piege-par-ses-traces-sur-la-toile_1143123_651865.html#xtor=EPR-32280155&ens_id=824668

Observers have remarked on it as a further confusion of public and private spaces - such as video surveillance privatizing public space, and the Facebooks publicizing private space. Others label it a group exhibitionism, and mutual narcism.

Whose story is our life anyway?