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The Electronic Eye
The Electronic Eye
The Electronic Eye
Surveillance
Surveillance
Digital Film
Digital Film
2024
2024
AirTags and similar digital devices are designed to help us locate lost objects, but they can just as easily be turned into tools for tracking people. What is often overlooked is that the tracking goes both ways. You follow the object, and the object also reveals your movements. This kind of technology quietly turns everyday items into surveillance tools. Location becomes a constant data point, stored, shared, and possibly misused. In this system, you are not just using the device. You are part of the data it creates.
AirTags and similar digital devices are designed to help us locate lost objects, but they can just as easily be turned into tools for tracking people. What is often overlooked is that the tracking goes both ways. You follow the object, and the object also reveals your movements. This kind of technology quietly turns everyday items into surveillance tools. Location becomes a constant data point, stored, shared, and possibly misused. In this system, you are not just using the device. You are part of the data it creates.
You think you are tracking your lost keys. But your keys are tracking you.
The signal cuts both ways. Your AirTag whispers your coordinates to the cloud.
The cloud listens. The object becomes a witness. A participant.
A small coin-sized device becomes an accidental informant.
You follow the signal. But who filters it? Who decides what is signal and what is noise?
You think you are tracking your lost keys. But your keys are tracking you.
The signal cuts both ways. Your AirTag whispers your coordinates to the cloud.
The cloud listens. The object becomes a witness. A participant.
A small coin-sized device becomes an accidental informant.
You follow the signal. But who filters it? Who decides what is signal and what is noise?
Vision no longer matters. What matters is trace. Pattern. Prediction.
Every movement creates data. Every pause generates a pause in data.
The map is alive and recursive.
You are not just holding the tool. You are held by it.
Vision no longer matters. What matters is trace. Pattern. Prediction.
Every movement creates data. Every pause generates a pause in data.
The map is alive and recursive.
You are not just holding the tool. You are held by it.
Surveillance is no longer a camera. It is an ecosystem.
You exist as a moving dot in someone else's interface.
And that dot, that ping, that breadcrumb—
it keeps glowing long after you have arrived.
Surveillance is no longer a camera. It is an ecosystem.
You exist as a moving dot in someone else's interface.
And that dot, that ping, that breadcrumb—
it keeps glowing long after you have arrived.
This is the electronic eye.
It spectates, and it sees everything.
This is the electronic eye.
It spectates, and it sees everything.
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