From: Paolo Cirio <info@paolocirio.net>
Date: Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 4:39 AM
Subject: Legal updates, Award, Exhibitions & More – The Face to Facebook Newsletter
To: michelsub2004@gmail.com
Press Release,
September 7th, 2011. Linz.
Face to Facebook
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Stealing 1 million Facebook profiles, filtering them with face-recognition software and posting them without user authorization on a custom-made dating website, sorted by the characteristics of their facial expressions.
A project by Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico.
The awesome news:
The Face to Facebook project won a prestigious Award of Distinction at Prix Ars Electronica 2011 in the "Interactive Art" category. Furthermore the work was also on display in the related Cyberarts 2011 exhibition, which took place at the OK Centrum, in Linz (Austria).
Face to Facebook presentation, September 5, Prix Ars Electronica Forum 2011:
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Face to Facebook installation, "Cyberarts 2011" exhibition, OK Center:
MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "t.ymlp188.com" claiming to be http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_ars.php
Legal update (new downloadable files):
We have published the entire legal correspondence between our lawyer and Facebook's legal team so far:
MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "t.ymlp188.com" claiming to be http://www.face-to-facebook.net/legal.php
September 5th is our response to the allegations contained in Facebook's letter of April 7th. Our lawyer answered all their questions precisely, pointing out Facebook's vulnerability (the website did not have any anti-scraping protection for years), the inconsistency of the accusations of criminal violations (we didn't break security measures) and our right to document our art project on the website face-to-facebook.net.
The letter ends: "Moreover, given the recent controversy and questions regarding the legality of Facebook's own "facial recognition" software ("Facebook 'Face Recognition' Feature Draws Privacy Scrutiny", Bloomberg News, July 8 2011), we are surprised that Facebook would continue to aggressively pursue a nonprofit conceptual art project that illustrated the risks of sharing data on social networking websites and wrapped up long ago."
The social experiment (new documents):
We published the personal reactions that we have received so far. The anonymous reactions were obtained through contact forms on the lovely-faces.com and face-to-facebook.net websites. They included responses from a variety of people; some upset, some confused and some very enthusiastic. Check them out here:
MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "t.ymlp188.com" claiming to be http://www.face-to-facebook.net/social_experiment.php
The Global Mass Media Hack Performance (new downloadable files):
The almost overwhelming press reactions have been archived in the form of screenshots. The whole archive of over one thousand global media reviews (still yet to be completed) can be downloaded from:MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "t.ymlp188.com" claiming to be
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1527685/face-to-facebook/f2f_press_coverage_screenshots.zip
Exhibitions and lectures:
In the next months we have the following lectures scheduled:
* 28 September, Rewire Conference, lecture, Liverpool - UK
* 13 October, Unsound Festival, lecture, Krakow - Poland
* 5-9 December, Psychoeconomy!, lecture, Seville, Spain
In the last few months Face to Facebook was included in seven exhibitions and we made ten presentations around Europe and beyond. Here are some of the installation pictures:
* Origin at Ars Electronica Festival 2011 in Linz:
MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "t.ymlp188.com" claiming to be http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_ars.php
* REALITYFLOWHACKED at Aksioma Project Space in Ljubljana:
MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "t.ymlp188.com" claiming to be http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_lub.php
* ENTER | DATAPOLIS at 5th Art|tech Biennale in Prague:
MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "t.ymlp188.com" claiming to be http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_enter.php
* Chilling Effects at Tetem in Enschede:
MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "t.ymlp188.com" claiming to be http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_tetem.php
* File PAI Festival 2011 in Sao Paulo:
MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "t.ymlp188.com" claiming to be http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_file.php
* Data cuerpos y retratos compartidos at De Centro Fundación Telefónica in Lima:
MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "t.ymlp188.com" claiming to be http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_lima.php
* RESPONSE:ABILITY at Transmediale Festival 2011 in Berlin:
MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "t.ymlp188.com" claiming to be http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_tm.php
Thanks for your attention.
Paolo and Alessandro.
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September 7th, 2011. Linz.
Face to Facebook
MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "t.ymlp188.com" claiming to be http://www.face-to-facebook.net
Stealing 1 million Facebook profiles, filtering them with face-recognition software and posting them without user authorization on a custom-made dating website, sorted by the characteristics of their facial expressions.
A project by Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico.
The awesome news:
The Face to Facebook project won a prestigious Award of Distinction at Prix Ars Electronica 2011 in the "Interactive Art" category. Furthermore the work was also on display in the related Cyberarts 2011 exhibition, which took place at the OK Centrum, in Linz (Austria).
Face to Facebook presentation, September 5, Prix Ars Electronica Forum 2011:
MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "t.ymlp188.com" claiming to be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZKW0ArCmmk
Face to Facebook installation, "Cyberarts 2011" exhibition, OK Center:
MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "t.ymlp188.com" claiming to be http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_ars.php
Legal update (new downloadable files):
We have published the entire legal correspondence between our lawyer and Facebook's legal team so far:
MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "t.ymlp188.com" claiming to be http://www.face-to-facebook.net/legal.php
September 5th is our response to the allegations contained in Facebook's letter of April 7th. Our lawyer answered all their questions precisely, pointing out Facebook's vulnerability (the website did not have any anti-scraping protection for years), the inconsistency of the accusations of criminal violations (we didn't break security measures) and our right to document our art project on the website face-to-facebook.net.
The letter ends: "Moreover, given the recent controversy and questions regarding the legality of Facebook's own "facial recognition" software ("Facebook 'Face Recognition' Feature Draws Privacy Scrutiny", Bloomberg News, July 8 2011), we are surprised that Facebook would continue to aggressively pursue a nonprofit conceptual art project that illustrated the risks of sharing data on social networking websites and wrapped up long ago."
The social experiment (new documents):
We published the personal reactions that we have received so far. The anonymous reactions were obtained through contact forms on the lovely-faces.com and face-to-facebook.net websites. They included responses from a variety of people; some upset, some confused and some very enthusiastic. Check them out here:
MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "t.ymlp188.com" claiming to be http://www.face-to-facebook.net/social_experiment.php
The Global Mass Media Hack Performance (new downloadable files):
The almost overwhelming press reactions have been archived in the form of screenshots. The whole archive of over one thousand global media reviews (still yet to be completed) can be downloaded from:MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "t.ymlp188.com" claiming to be
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1527685/face-to-facebook/f2f_press_coverage_screenshots.zip
Exhibitions and lectures:
In the next months we have the following lectures scheduled:
* 28 September, Rewire Conference, lecture, Liverpool - UK
* 13 October, Unsound Festival, lecture, Krakow - Poland
* 5-9 December, Psychoeconomy!, lecture, Seville, Spain
In the last few months Face to Facebook was included in seven exhibitions and we made ten presentations around Europe and beyond. Here are some of the installation pictures:
* Origin at Ars Electronica Festival 2011 in Linz:
MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "t.ymlp188.com" claiming to be http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_ars.php
* REALITYFLOWHACKED at Aksioma Project Space in Ljubljana:
MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "t.ymlp188.com" claiming to be http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_lub.php
* ENTER | DATAPOLIS at 5th Art|tech Biennale in Prague:
MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "t.ymlp188.com" claiming to be http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_enter.php
* Chilling Effects at Tetem in Enschede:
MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "t.ymlp188.com" claiming to be http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_tetem.php
* File PAI Festival 2011 in Sao Paulo:
MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "t.ymlp188.com" claiming to be http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_file.php
* Data cuerpos y retratos compartidos at De Centro Fundación Telefónica in Lima:
MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "t.ymlp188.com" claiming to be http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_lima.php
* RESPONSE:ABILITY at Transmediale Festival 2011 in Berlin:
MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "t.ymlp188.com" claiming to be http://www.face-to-facebook.net/face-to-facebook/face-to-facebook_tm.php
Thanks for your attention.
Paolo and Alessandro.
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