A phone broadcasts over WiFi, Bluetooth, and NFC all the time, and anyone listening can learn a good deal from traffic nobody meant as public. Privacy Mirror was a Knight Lab Studio project to make that visible: a mirror that reflects back what is radiating from whoever stands in front of it, so that people take the exposure seriously once they see their own device in the list.
Zach Wise
Zach WiseEmmy-winning interactive producer, associate professor at Northwestern's Medill school and a Knight Lab faculty lead; formerly of The New York Times. Creator of TimelineJS and StoryMapJS.LinkedIn ↗ led it in the winter 2019 quarter, with Will ReinhardtWRWill ReinhardtNorthwestern student on the Privacy Mirror team in the Knight Lab Studio, winter 2019.LinkedIn ↗ and Sarah WongSWSarah WongNorthwestern computer science, class of 2019; on the Privacy Mirror team in the Knight Lab Studio.LinkedIn ↗ as the students, and I provided technical assistance to the team. The quarter's questions were which signals a person gives off, how accurately a signal can be placed, what can be read from it, and what makes the result feel like a mirror.