Personal Data in the
Digital Age?
Today virtually everything we do is recorded, monitored or tracked in some way. The quantity and the value of the many different types of personal data being collected today is vast: our profiles and demographic data from bank accounts to medical records to employment data. Our Web searches, the sites we visited, our likes and dislikes and purchase histories. Our tweets, texts, emails, phone calls and photos as well as the coordinates of our real-world locations. Today’s everyday services relying on aggregated data are becoming more and more complex - even if they look simple on the surface. When we use information technology today it's more difficult than ever to estimate what the long-term consequences might be.
As a result Data Dealer wants to give answers to questions like:
- What kinds of personal data do exist?
- Who is collecting this data?
- What are their intentions?
- What could the data be used for?
- And what is the possible impact on individuals?
We did a great deal of background research: most of the information in the game is based on true stories.
Background report
Collecting, processing and selling personal data? Personal data in the digital age?
▶ Download PDF ~980kB, 15p.
MEET US
Meet us in person! You can find us at the following upcoming events as speakers or participants:
JUNE 3, 2013
R.I.P. Privacy? Tech Natives Debate, Vienna (AT)
Guests: Max Schrems (Europe vs. Facebook), Wolfie Christl (Data Dealer), Tom Spiegel (iProspect Austria), Anne Roth (Tactical Technology Collective).
▶ technatives.at
JUNE 4 + 5, 2013
e-virtuoses Conference + Awards, Valenciennes (FR)
Simulation, e-learning, serious games, gamification. Data Dealer is a nominee!
▶ e-virtuoses.net
JUNE 17 - 19, 2013
Games for Change Festival, New York City (US)
Catalyzing Social Impact Through Digital Games. Data Dealer is a nominee!
▶ gamesforchange.org
JUNE 24 + 25, 2013
DisCo 2013 Conference, Prague (CZ)
DisCo 2013: New Technologies and Media Literacy Education. Keynote speech by Wolfie Christl.
▶ disconference.eu
OCTOBER 13 - 16, 2013
ICIC 2013 Conference, Vienna (AT)
International Conference for the Information Community
▶ icic.eu
PAST EVENTS
MAY 24 + 25, 2013
Bended Realities Festival, Offenbach (GER)
Playing for Real! Festival for Playful Digital Culture.
▶ Bended Realities
NOVEMBER 3, 2012
TEDxVienna, Vienna (AT)
Wolfie Christl about "Data Dealer": How to gamify personal data (business)
▶ TEDxVienna 2012: Instanity
OCTOBER 18, 2012
Data Dealer @ brut theatre, Vienna (AT)
Lecture performance, theatrical reading of the Facebook data usage policy, audiovisual performance "Data Set" by Christina Goestl & Boris Kopeinig, Live: Didi Bruckmayr.
▶ brut-wien.at
Data Dealer at TEDxVienna
How to gamify personal data business? Data Dealer´s Wolfie Christl talked about self tracking tools, health insurance companies, data brokers like Acxiom or Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions, and about the development of "Data Dealer":
