Bluejacking - Unsolicited Bluetooth Messages
There is a project underway to raise awareness of the ways in which our activities and habits can be tracked. The art project is known as Location Oriented Critical Arts, or
Loca is grass-roots, pervasive surveillance. A person walking through the city centre hears a beep on their phone and glances at the screen. Instead of an SMS alert they see a message reading: We are currently experiencing difficulties monitoring your position: please wave you network device in the air.
Loca is an exercise in everyday surveillance, tracking digital objects in physical space. What happens when it is easy for everyone to track everyone, when surveillance can be affected by consumer level technology within peer-to-peer networks without being routed through a central point?
Cool or creepy? I guess since it is under the guise of ‘art’ it may mean to be both… What next? A strap-on?