Richard Newton’s Have You Seen My Privacy, hosts a performance in 18th Street’s Gallery with collaborating artist Emery C. Martin , to discuss the inner workings of the Neighborhood Network Watch Keyword Analysis Application (NNWKAA) and the subjective nature of software and textual analysis
The NNWKAA is a textual analysis application designed to look for words associated with terrorism and national security threats found in raw network and web traffic dumps. The NNWKAA, has served as the software component of the Neighborhood Network Watch, a simulation of a possible next step in America’s War on Terrorism that crowd sources domestic eavesdropping operations while targeting public and private WiFi networks. By design the NNWKAA was meant to inflate the amount of perceived terror that is found to the point that anything and everything is considered to be terrorist related. In turn providing justification for the software and the group’s existence as well as paralleling the continual and cyclical erosion of civil liberties and privacy in post 9/11 society.
