A Facebook Amazon Netflix Google Obfuscator

FANGØ is a defense weapon against surveillance capitalism.

Hidden under its appearance of mobile phone charger will be provided with a micro controller that takes control of the smartphone plugged in making queries to google, amazon and other search engines, launching videos in YouTube in order to deceive data brokers in their data capture process.Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google were grouped under the acronym FANG as the most important and high-performing companies of the NASDAQ and pioneers of what is known today as surveillance capitalism.

In a similar way as industrial capitalism through its mechanics turned nature or work into a commodity such as real estate or labor, surveillance capitalism turns experiences that occur in the private sphere of the human being into commodities that can be bought and sold.

The difference of this type of capitalism is substantial as it integrates the human experiences of private realm in the production processes without the individual being fully conscious. This affects the economic sphere but also the independence of the human being, because with the logic of maximizing profits the companies will try to modify the user’s behaviour without the user being able to do much to defend himself.

The aim of the project is to disrupt this mechanics, adding noise to the captured data, making it difficult to transform the captured user data into predictions, thus devaluing the value of the extracted data.

Make your own.

The solution for the problems of capitalism is not going to come from the capitalism itself..
FANGo is an open project in which all outcomes are freely distributed, both code and 3d printing models.

All the code, the 3d model are free so you can build yout own.

Credits

FANGØ has been developed within the framework of the EMAP/EMARE residences with the support of Onassis Stegi

This project was funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in the NEUSTART KULTUR program Module D - Digital Mediation Formats.

In the media.