Dark Side of the Prism
Dark Side of the Prism is a Firefox Add-on that provides a soundtrack for our surveilled internet meanderings.
The public recently learned that the US National Security Agency's on-going internet surveillance program, Prism, collects data from users of major websites.
Many of us already know that any data we might share-- not just Facebook posts, but our search and click pathways and histories-- could be compromised, but we do so anyway. We have normalized this ubiquitous surveillance.
Dark Side of the Prism uses Pink Floyd's aural prism (Dark Side of the Moon) as a playlist to the NSA's tracking efforts, serving as an auditory reminder of how our online activities are surveilled. What hypochondriac questions do you Google in the middle of the night; who do you cyberstalk? Consider those missives the lyrical component to our soundtrack.
Download the add on from Mozilla:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dark-side-of-the-prism/
Grab the code and/or download the Add-on on Github:
https://github.com/jblinder/DarkSideOfThePrism
Produced with the support of Eyebeam.
Year: 2013
Press:
The Guardian Firefox add-on warns internet users of the dark side of the NSA
RT Firefox plug-in warns users of NSA surveillance
De Morgenhttps://www.demorgen.be/dm/nl/5403/Internet/article/detail/1653298/2013/06/17/Software-laat-weten-wanneer-NSA-je-kan-bespioneren.dhtml