To accompany Utopia, the new six part drama on Channel 4, the techie-brains of Channel 4 have released a site to work out how long it'll take until they find you. The actual definition of ‘them’ will be left to the TV series to clear up – drama aside, the reality is that everyone falls under surveillance on a daily basis. The Utopia Inquiry pulls in live data from your local authority to weigh up exactly how much money has been injected into ensure complete surveillance of all a town or city’s residents.
Anyone who tuned into Utopia will have been left feeling severely chilled by the distinct lack of utopia. Four people’s lives suffer an unfortunate visit from two gangsta looking guys as a result of being linked to a novel, ‘The Utopia Experiments’, although it’s saturated within a drama script there are definite lessons which can be learnt from the information that people can ascertain about us.
"The Utopia Inquiry" asks a series of questions which then calculates just how easily you can be detected - are you a sitting duck or off the grid? It's refreshing to have a collection of online resources which can estimate just how much the Internet is feeding your identity to other people. The links at the bottom are definitely worth checking out too (iPhone passcodes, smartphone data and loyalty card data).
My time until I get discovered will be 35:55 minutes, with my visibility being most exposed by just walking out on the streets. How do you measure up? Find out more...
