New You Times

This project is a collaboration with Shu-Ju Lin. We are addressing the issue on data privacy, how they are collected and sold by portraying the whole scenario in an exaggerated manner. The project is made into both online and offline experience. For online version, we made a Chrome extension that would log each individuals’ browser history when they visit New York Times website. For offline, we printed a hard copy of it.

We used the google chrome extension “chrome.history” API to access the users history browsing data. The API is able to store and recall the browser history such as last visit time, title, url, and visit count. The data that we are interested in are site title, site url and last visit time. Then we targeted the url for New York Times and change the headings to something thats related to the browsing history

We also made a print mockup.

For future iteration, we look forward into:

1. Separate each data set into different sections, such as, food, travel, style, shop, video, etc

2. Implementing the plugin on different news publications such as Wall Street Journal, BBC, CNN, and more.

Chrome extension code available on github.