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The Glass Room: An Investigation and Intervention into Our Online Lives Pops-up in New YorkAt first glance, The Glass Room looks like another slick tech store offering the latest shiny digital consumer products. Go inside, and you'll find something more unusual on the tables - an "Unfit Bit" for fabricating exercise data, a facial recognition system to monitor event attendance, and the Sociometric badge for tracking employee workplace activity, such as who talks to whom, where and how often. This Smart News Release features multimedia. View the full release here: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20161129005961/en/ 
The Glass Room Launching on November 29, The Glass Room is actually a faux storefront where the 'products' are artworks, investigations and activist projects designed to provoke personal reflection and public commentary on personal data, privacy and security. Some, like the Sociometric badge and the Churchix facial-recognition attendance tracker, are real products in the market today. The onsite volunteer store team is a helpful group of hoodie-wearing "inGeniouses". Rather than upsell visitors on more memory or extra gadgets, the inGeniouses engage visitors in an examination of their online lives and offer strategies to better control personal data and privacy. The Glass Room exhibition includes 54 objects and artworks spread across four tables:
The Glass Room About Mozilla Mozilla has been a pioneer and advocate for the open web for more than 15 years. We promote open standards that enable innovation and advance the Web as a platform for all. Today, hundreds of millions of people worldwide use Mozilla Firefox to experience the Web on computers, tablets and mobile devices. For more information, visit www.mozilla.org About Tactical Tech Tactical Tech is a non-profit organization, working since 2003 to advance the use of information and digital technologies by advocates and activists worldwide. Based in Berlin, we work with an international network of partners and collaborators to help rights, accountability and transparency advocates and the communities they work with to use information and digital technologies effectively in their work. Working at the intersection of tech, activism and politics, Tactical Tech reaches more than three million people worldwide annually through exhibitions, events, training and online resources. www.tacticaltech.org, @info_activism
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