Our team away afternoon at the start of November was a trip to The Glassroom, a ‘pop up tech store with a twist’. It was set up in a space in central London, by Mozilla and the Tactical Technology Collective, and upon entering it looks pretty similar to an Apple store. Cool white colours and ‘products’ on pedestals, even a Genius bar (though here named the Ingenius bar).
The topics of the exhibit were personal data, personal data security, and privacy. It’s purpose was to get us thinking about the kind of information that is stored about us online, who owns that data, and what they are doing with it.
We don’t need you to type at all. We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about.
— Eric Schmidt, when he was CEO of Google