“Facebook should be congratulated and condemned in one go: they’ve built a revolutionary platform that’s catalysed the political change sweeping the Middle East and beyond, but Facebook has also become a treasure trove of information for dictators, allowing them to identify and track those who oppose them.”
AccessNow.org: A global movement for digital freedom
Created in response to this quote, Idris retrieves sensitive public information live from Facebook and immortalises it in print.
By presenting material that is usually available through the standard Facebook interface in a wholly different, unsettling and ‘friendless’ context, Idris highlights an important problem: social networking sites are designed to seduce us into sharing a little more than we perhaps should.
