Saving Big Brother the bother
A MAN WHO was arrested by the FBI which believed that he was a terrorist is photographing every aspect of his life and posting it on his
website.
Hasan Elahi has taken 20,000 images over the last three years recording his whereabouts and the people he met.
The 35 year-old artist and Rutgers professor also 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. According to
Wired, the Bangladeshi-born American says the US government mistakenly listed him on its terrorist watch list. Once you're on, it's hard to get off and every time he flies anywhere he has to tell the FBI first.
In a bid to convince the Feds of his innocence, Elahi has made his life an open book. What is amusing is that the American government is so paranoid that they really have been visiting his site to check up on him. His server logs show hits from the Pentagon, the Secretary of Defense, and the Executive Office of the President.
Elahi says that the advantage of self monitoring is that if you let the government do it they get things wrong. You can monitor yourself much more accurately.
He works on the basis that if you flood Big Brother with information it will choke and die.
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