The US government mistakenly listed Bangladeshi-born American Hasan Elahi - a 35-year-old artist and Rutgers professor - on its terrorist watch list. To convince the Feds of his innocence, Elahi has made his life an open book. Whenever they want, officials can go to his site and see where he is and what he's doing. Indeed, his server logs show hits from the Pentagon, the Secretary of Defense, and the Executive Office of the President, among others.He posts pictures on his website, sometimes a hundred a day. The rooms he sat in, the food he ate, the coffees he ordered. Poke around his site and you'll find more than 20,000 images stretching back several years. Elahi has documented nearly every waking hour of his life during that time. He posts copies of every debit card transaction, so you can see what he bought, where, and when. A GPS device in his pocket reports his real-time physical location on a map.
Hasan Elahi's website.
2 comment(s):
This sad, sad, sad. The Bush administration is doing everything it can to limit our right to privacy. I still can't believe Americans were dumb enough to re-elect that clown.
But don't blame me, I voted for Gore and Kerry.
he had an exhibit in Washington, DC recently. His photos and artwork are excellent.
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