Not only the collection of data provides an interpretative scope, but also computing processes allows further interpretations.” When you turn on Location History, you may see a number of benefits across Google products and services, including personalized maps, recommendations based on places you’ve visited, help finding. “In doing so, a blindness arises against the processes that data generates and the assumption that numbers speak for themselves. “In this process it is pointing out the fact that we are highly focused on the data and tent to see them as objective, unambiguous, and interpretation free,” Weckert said. Showing how the data can be hacked and manipulated is like pointing out the Emperor has no clothes. “They substitute political and military power in a way that represents the state borders between territories and they can repeat, legitimate, and construct the differences of classes and social self-understandings.”ĭata is not objective and the maps themselves have biases. “Maps have the potential as an instrument of power,” he said. Weckert was showing us all how data and maps can affect the world they’re meant to chart. The maps are their own territory, their own objective reality, not just a reflection of the real world but a branch of it. Data is always collected for a specific purpose, by a combination of people, technology, money, commerce, and government.”
The images, lists, graphs, and maps that represent those data are all interpretations, and there is no such thing as neutral data. “Data is always translated to what they might be presented. “‘The map is not the territory … but another version of reality,’’ Weckert said, quoting semanticist Alfred Korzybski, one of William S. “My subjective feeling was that even this short time was already enough to change the traffic in the street,” he said. He said he’d spend an hour or two on each spot, walking back and forth on the street to generate a traffic jam.
#GOOGLE MAPS TRAFFIC ANDROID#
To pull off the trick, Weckert rented 99 smartphones, all of them Android devices, and purchased 99 sims cards for them online. “The hack shows us what is possible with this technology and who we rely on.” “Isn’t it crazy much space is used by a car in a city compared to the usage?” he said.
Weckert told Motherboard that he did the hack/art installation to get people to think about the space we give to cars in public life and the data we rely on everyday.
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