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Look, it’s really no big surprise how far we’ve let slip our right to privacy. What comes as something of a shock is how happily we’ve volunteered its erosion, cookie by cookie, behavioral analysis by behavioral analysis. Well, maybe one guy wasn’t so startled: Josh Harris, founder in the ’90s of Pseudo, the first Internet TV network, and explorer from the turn of the century onward into people’s zeal for letting the world intercede on their lives, so long as the camera remained trained on them. In the documentary We Live in Public , director Ondi Timoner focuses on two of Harris’ most prominent and controversial ventures: Quiet: We Live in Public, an experiment in which 100 people were shut into a Soho, NY basement with all the comforts of home, plus 24/7 surveillance, mandatory uniforms, communal sleeping quarters, fascistic interrogators, and a fully-stocked armory (danger, Will Robinson!); and weliveinpublic.com, essentially the same concept, but located in his loft and turned on himself and his then-girlfriend (who, not all that surprisingly, pretty quickly became his then-not-girlfriend)
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Dan Persons: Mighty Movie Podcast: Welcome, Big Brother: Ondi Timoner on We Live in Public
