Where I'm at

So I began by looking into treasury tags, a simple device, which keeps hole-punched paper bound together. After looking into compression of layers, and the strength of the tag I decided that the function was weak.

These tags are not very secure, I’ve concluded that the hole-punched papers are often torn and pages in a bound document can be lost and distorted because of this.

I was interested in the importance of this document, what missing information could do to harm the content. Does the narrative have a darker side and this information is lost on purpose. Are there parts of government documents left out of the general public awareness?

In the present these documents would not be physical but digital instead. (I may still look into older documents as I like the connotations of a shady past full of espionage and secrecy done manually through coding’s and subtly).

The common stories discovered in my current affairs research all resolved around Edward Snowden and his unravelling of western governments spying on each other. He leaked vital documents that proved that the US had been spying on British citizens, as well as hacking into Google and keeping tabs on the publics movements.

This intrusion into everyone’s privacy (not just criminals or suspects) I find very interesting. What systems are in place to protect our human rights if even our government is secretly dismissing them?

How can we control the digital world? When it is a language that the majority of us cannot decipher or use ourselves? We cannot understand how our data is transferred or how to control it.

Visually I enjoy the juxtaposition between 70's early digital graphics and latest data that would be incomprehensible to someone from that time.