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How to buy People's Data (Art Project) (self.privacy)
submitted 1 year ago by middlefielder to c/privacy
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Hi Lemmy,

intro I study fine art and for a project I want to buy some of the data from brokers from all of the art students at my university.

The point is to show people how easy it is to get that data.

questions: I have a list of emails and names. Can I go to data brokers and buy all of the data associated with those emails ot does it not work like that?* Can I then combine various datasets and build a better and better collection? How and where do I actually buy that data?

about the project at our annual university festival, I would have old desks with old PCs (like in a government building, or at the DMV) people can come and I will tell them something about them or even print them their data on an old looking printer.

Thank you

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aren't there like... ethics issues with this?

You helpfully did not identify the country, but if it's the United States, you can just ask the state to send you the entire list of registered voters. Some states will charge a large amount of money, some won't. You could probably do something fun with that.

[โ€“] middlefielder 1 points 1 year ago

Yes - which is exactly the point of the project.

I wanna make people aware that this is all of the data they "voluntarily" give up when using services.

I'm in the EU