Every few months I get a weird text message, intended for one of my parents, from a person who wants to buy my childhood home. Most of us have experienced the degradation of our phones as actual communication devices. The three most recent calls on my phone’s log are spam numbers, robots that would have threatened vague legal action for some vague transgression if I had picked up. In fact, I never answer the phone anymore unless it’s a saved contact, and I usually miss
The book Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protestby Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum touches upon this idea of hiding within data by providing an excess of it -- if you want to learn about some concrete historical & modern examples of this type of subversion I'd recommend!
The book Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protestby Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum touches upon this idea of hiding within data by providing an excess of it -- if you want to learn about some concrete historical & modern examples of this type of subversion I'd recommend!