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# I Know What You Did Last Summer
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/i-know-what-you-did-last-summer/
- Published: 2014-07-02T09:36:00.000Z
- Updated: 2016-06-03T17:18:58.000Z
- Description: A seemingly harmless filing cabinet has a sobering message in this Royal College of Art final year project by Jaap de Maat
- Author: Maks Fus Mickiewicz
- Tags: Seeds, Art & Design, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:25

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If you visited the Royal College of Art over the weekend, you may have been stalked by a seemingly cute filing cabinet with a mind of its own. Part of a final year MA project in Information Design Experience by [Jaap de Maat](http://ied.rca.ac.uk/person/jaap-de-maat?ref=protein.xyz) – titled it [I Know What You Did Last Summer](http://ied.rca.ac.uk/final-projects-2014/i-know-what-you-did-last-summer?ref=protein.xyz), the filing cabinet is an apposite representation of the times we live in. A symbol of the dangers of data collection.   
  
Our actions online are not only surveyed and collected by third parties, they’re also stored forever. As a response to the apathy many of us feel, de Maat’s clunky cabinet serves as a physical reminder to be aware of what we share online. Kitted out with a modified electric wheelchair, a motor, Arduino board, distance sensors and a webcam, it’s a fitting piece of design given recent revelations of spying by the NSA and abuse of collected data.   
  
As we’ve seen with the [Jammer Coat](https://www.prote.in/en/feed/2014/06/jammer-coat?ref=protein.xyz) and [x.pose](https://www.prote.in/en/feed/2014/06/x-pose?ref=protein.xyz), privacy in a high-tech world is fast becoming a major concern. With projects like this putting privacy ahead of everything else, products sharing this viewpoint are likely to become more common.