Interface - Would you have known?
Interfaces dominate our social interactions but they also invade our private information, our own intimate spaces and we allow them, even invite them. When we install an App on our smartphone or tablet we do see the icon appear, read the information or use the opportunities it gives us. But do we look beyond the surface? #participation
What we do not see looking at interfaces of smartphones is what our phone is actually doing, exchanging data constantly, using your camera, searching through your pictures and conversations on What’s App. Our smartphone knows where we are, where we are going, where we are living and even who we are sleeping with. Ask your best friend what he knows about you and then your smartphone. You’d probably be surprised how much information and through that control your phone with a multitude of intelligent technology hides behind pretty stylized buttons, interfaces trimmed for easy usability. #blackbox
Who does get all the information we share with the App, let alone the titbits it snatches itself like our pictures, emails, and personal contacts that we have allowed right when we installed it. Did we think about the contents we share?
The interface as the visible structure of a protocol-based code might not be the primary connection one would make to the black box lying beyond the pretty surface created for the user, but the interface directly or indirectly masks and obscures the infrastructure of data traffic and storage as well as privacy rights and ignorance of such to a great deal. #perception
Take Google, for example: Regardless of your phone brand you’ll very likely have Google Maps as an App on your phone already preinstalled. How convenient, when you don’t know where to find your friend’s house or even the next supermarket, bank or if you’re on the road the best place to refuel. Interfaces and their make-up can have a great impact on our privacy of data by showing or obscuring the processes behind, where the data goes and who profits from it and what consequences does it have for the user?
What we do not see looking at interfaces of smartphones is what our phone is actually doing, exchanging data constantly, using your camera, searching through your pictures and conversations on What’s App. Our smartphone knows where we are, where we are going, where we are living and even who we are sleeping with. Ask your best friend what he knows about you and then your smartphone. You’d probably be surprised how much information and through that control your phone with a multitude of intelligent technology hides behind pretty stylized buttons, interfaces trimmed for easy usability. #blackbox
Who does get all the information we share with the App, let alone the titbits it snatches itself like our pictures, emails, and personal contacts that we have allowed right when we installed it. Did we think about the contents we share?
The interface as the visible structure of a protocol-based code might not be the primary connection one would make to the black box lying beyond the pretty surface created for the user, but the interface directly or indirectly masks and obscures the infrastructure of data traffic and storage as well as privacy rights and ignorance of such to a great deal. #perception
Take Google, for example: Regardless of your phone brand you’ll very likely have Google Maps as an App on your phone already preinstalled. How convenient, when you don’t know where to find your friend’s house or even the next supermarket, bank or if you’re on the road the best place to refuel. Interfaces and their make-up can have a great impact on our privacy of data by showing or obscuring the processes behind, where the data goes and who profits from it and what consequences does it have for the user?
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