Sounds cool, right?WeAreData -- a promotional website for Ubisoft's Watch Dogs game -- gathers urban and unprotected personal information to create an interactive real-time map of European cities.
Offering detailed data on London, Paris and Berlin the site pulls up a 3D map which can be investigated as it continually pulls fresh information from publicly available sources such as unprotected social media accounts.
Then it gets a little creepy...The information being used in WeareData splits into a number of categories. One is public service information -- for London that's things like Tube trains which you can watch chugging across the city as little blobs, and Boris bikes. Another is electronic equipment -- so CCTV cameras, ATMs and traffic lights. There's also statistical information on the area such as unemployment rates, crime rates and so on.
Just goes to show how everything really is connected.At one point I clicked on a blue cluster of tweets thinking it might be a lot of people at an event. It turned out to be the glow of a girl spamming her feed with a passive-aggressive rant about a man who had irked her. I was also able to locate my own house by checking tweets in the vicinity.
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