A Store With Nothing To Sell Helps You Reclaim Your Online Privacy

Sometimes it takes a blend of art and experience in order to bring an idea more powerfully to life. At the Glass Door retail installation in central London, the idea is that people can experience their own digital footprint through immersive tools – like a face scanner that pulls up publicly available photos of you, or an art installation called Where The F**k was I? that shows an artists location over one year as tracked by his iPhone. At the end of the experience, visitors get a “Data Detox Kit” with instructions to take back control of their data online.

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