iYou

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Discover the stories saved in your pocket

Your smart phone collects more data about you than you realize. iYou™ is an iTunes plug-in that visualizes your iPhone’s unexposed data and makes your communication habits transparent.

Did you ever wonder what your data tells you about your relationships with your friends? Who do you wink at the most? Or who do you contact when you feel happy? Combining all the information from different apps into the iYou™ software, allows you to better understand your circles of contacts and the ways you communicate with them.

iYou™ is an open software project resulting from a research project by Niels Schrader and Bert Kommerij, currently being developed in collaboration with Waag Society and software developer Michał Ejdys. The project is committed to openness of data access and the understanding of media transparency.

This is very interesting, but I’m also somewhat convinced that it’s not the best data security decision for me to download it.

Still, I’m likely going to cave this evening, because it’s such an intriguing concept, and the first meaningful use of the iTunes Visualizer I’ve seen that doesn’t involve recreational drug use.