Keys & Cookies Contradicting Digital and Physical Privacy
We lock our doors as we go out of the house. Locking, thus feeling safe and having a sense of security over our belongings - the valuable items that are kept safely behind the locked door. The keys that we lock our doors with are a symbol of our privacy. However, an increasingly digital world makes the concept of privacy much more complex. We carry our phones and laptops
everywhere. Connect to different networks, visit various websites. This makes it very easy for hackers to trace your movements, track you and even steal data. Unknowingly and unwillingly, we give our information to various sources across the world; in the form of cookies from websites, blindly agreeing to terms and conditions and connecting to various free internet hotspots are few of the various examples. This project – Keys and Cookies – symbolises this contradiction between physical and digital privacy and aims to get the user thinking about the true cost we pay and the implications of the digital world we live in.
Concept
We live in curious times - A time where technology, with each passing moment, is being integrated more and more into our lives. These changes, however exciting, have a huge potential to invade our privacy.
These locations, when viewed on a world map give you a precise idea of the real implications of internet and raise questions over safety, security and privacy. The design idea was to somehow make the user aware - by tracing their personalised locations over a world map in to the form of a key stand thus making the user question the authenticity of privacy in the new age. Since the physical key is a representation of privacy, a key stand would be the perfect instrument in generating a dialogue of contradiction in privacy between the digital and physical world.
Design Basis
Since the design was based on implications of the fragility of digital privacy, I started by tracing the IP address of my home network, only for the year 2016. The search was able to locate my IP address to various servers globally. To narrow it down, I added the MAC address of my computer to the search parameter and it revealed traces of residual information- information left over by visits to various websites over time, speciď€ cally by my computer. These results were shocking as my personal information was lying in servers located in countries I have never even visited.
Raster the Map
Extrude the Map
Make a Border
3D Resin Print
Digital Design Process
Extrude the Locations
Adding Clear Resin
3D Resin Print
Final Product Prototype
Analogue Design Process
Casting the Resing
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Technical Information
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