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Tate Modern’s Neighbors Take the Museum to Court Over Privacy Concerns

Avatar photo by Zachary Small November 9, 2018

The London museum’s 10-floor viewing terrace has a 360-degree view of the city, which includes direct sight lines into a nearby luxury apartment’s intimate interiors.

A view of the NEO Bankside apartments from the Tate Switch House observation deck (photo by PaulSHird/Flickr)
Posted inIn Brief

In Ongoing Crusade for Privacy, Residents of Glass Condos Sue Tate

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton April 20, 2017

Five residents of a luxury apartment complex claim Tate is violating the European Convention of Human Rights by letting visitors photograph their glass-walled flats.

Posted inIn Brief

Peeping Toms on Tate Modern Observation Deck Lead Neighbors to Threaten Legal Action

Avatar photo by Carey Dunne September 7, 2016September 7, 2016

Residents of London’s Neo Bankside luxury apartment complex, next to the Tate Modern, have lately been dismayed to find photographs of their living rooms and bedrooms popping up on strangers’ Instagram feeds.

Posted inArt

Visualizing the Purrrsonal Data You Share with Your Cat Photos

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 9, 2016March 9, 2016

For Owen Mundy, the internet’s love of cats is a gateway to recognizing the huge amounts of personal data we share publicly on social media.

Posted inNews

Big Brother Is Bugging Ai Weiwei

Avatar photo by Carey Dunne October 5, 2015October 5, 2015

“There’s always a surprise,” Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei wrote on Instagram yesterday, captioning a photograph of a surveillance device he found hidden in his studio after returning to Beijing from his first trip overseas in four years.

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Artist Who Furtively Photographed His Neighbors Wins in Court, Again

by Laura C. Mallonee April 21, 2015April 28, 2015

Last week, a New York State appeals court upheld a lower court ruling that exonerated photographer Arne Svenson against claims of privacy invasion, Photo District News reported.

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Transmediale Festival Shuts Down NSA Imitators

by Ellen Pearlman February 19, 2014February 22, 2014

Julian Oliver and Danja Vasiliev, two artists participating in Berlin’s Transmediale 2014 (January 29–February 2), had an artwork summarily disabled at the festival last month because the piece uses the same technology as the National Security Agency (NSA) to hijack cell phone information.

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Exit Through the Anti-Surveillance Gift Shop

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian August 19, 2013August 25, 2013

The New Museum Store will be hosting a very of-the-moment Privacy Gift Shop, which will feature “stealth wear” clothing and accessories that will help you dodge — or at least make you hope you are — surveillance methods.

Posted inArt

Gays, Grindr, the Holocaust Memorial, and Art: An Interview with Marc Adelman

by Ben Valentine December 21, 2012November 18, 2019

BERKELEY, California — Marc Adelman’s project, “Stelen (Columns)” has been met with critical acclaimed and controversy. It’s time to hear what the artist himself has to say about the series.

Shary Boyle Ventures Outside the Palace of Me at the Museum of Arts and Design
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