FB Bureau - Ein Service von Tobias Leingruber

Freie Ausweise für Facebook Bürger!
Vergessen Sie Ihre Privatsphäre - der nächste Zweikampf zwischen Facebook und den Usern geht um nichts Geringeres als um den Besitz Ihrer Identität. Dieses Projekt zeigt auf spielerische, aber auch sehr deutliche Weise wie Facebook als DAS dominante Identitätsmanagement heutzutage funktioniert. Es ist also nur folgerichtig, echte FB-Ausweise herzustellen und zu verteilen - als einen Ausblick auf die Zukunft.

Tobias Leingrüber zum Hintergrund von FB Bureau:
"Ich kam auf die Idee als ich die Grenze von Kanada in die USA überquerte und der Grenzbeamte mich scherzhaft fragte: 'und was ist Ihr Facebook-Name'?"
 

Facebook Inc. is the dominant identity management system on the web. By controlling our (online) identities, paired with our social data it's not very hard to imagine the establishment of a world-wide valid ID, controlled by a corporation and not by one government. When discussions concerning the Facebook system (e.g. about privacy) finally reach mainstream minds and media, it is often too late to do much about it. Therefore we think it's time to explore this possible future now - *before* "I agree" buttons are clicked and code is established. After Lawrence Lessig - The code is the law!

The forerunner of this project is FB Resistance, a series of workshops to encourage people to question the rules and restrictions of Facebook by showing them the basics of web technologies, open data and creating little "hacks".

Tobias Leingruber (@tbx) is an artist and "new media" communication designer, Merz Akademie Stuttgart. His work is exploring and exposing the mutual impacts of networked communication technologies to human society, in the belief to contribute to a positive design of it's future.

As an advocate for freedom on the web he has worked with many artists and organisations such as the F.A.T. Lab, Artzilla.org, Silicon Sentier and the Mozilla Foundation (Firefox). He's active in the internet start-up and art scene.

His latest projects include FB Resistance and Mozilla Demoparty. His work has been exhibited in galleries and home computers worldwide and featured by mainstream media such as the NY Times, LA Times, Wired, Spiegel, 3sat(TV) or Liberation.fr.