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Giving power 
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Giving the power back to the people.
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Giving power back to the people. 

Kreeper is a surveillance tool for the everyday Kiwi, built to revolutionise how we keep ourselves safe and secure as a society. 

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Kreeper puts the power in everyone's hands by providing 24/7 VR footage of those in power, to monitor at their will.

 

ABOUT

At Kreeper, we believe in living in a balanced society.
A society where the power is equally shared between the government and it's people.
We recognise the potential to lose this balance of power to the government by having our data under surveillance by spy agencies.

Our aim is to create a community of spying companions to give power back to the people of New Zealand. 

We aim to do this by:

WHY?

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In 2013, the Edward Snowden NASA leaks revealed a NZ spy agency, the Government Communications Security Bureau’s (GCSB), work to implement a mass data surveillance system within New Zealand (Edwards, B, 2015, May 15).

The Prime Minister's responses to the leaks were unreliably varied and lacked transparency (Greenwald, G. & Gallagher, R. 2014, September 15).  

Since the leaks were made, an independent review of the GCSB was made
(Kirk, S. 2015, March 26), asking for an Act to clarify the role of the agency and require higher levels of agent authorisation.
There has been criticism that the review does not consider those being spied on by the agency
(NZ Council for Civil Liberties. n.d.).



 

WHY
  • Allowing insight in to the world of government surveillance through the distribution and monitoring of personal Virtual Reality footage following New Zealand politicians, police and members of spy agencies
     

  • Starting a conversation about how far is too far when it comes to surveillance and privacy
     

  • Encouraging a transparent approach to surveillance for New Zealand society

     

The Snowden leaks highlight the flaws
in our New Zealand surveillance system.
 
The leaks suggest that:

Surveillance can only exist without anyone knowing
 
The people being surveilled have no rights or laws protecting them (NZ Council for Civil Liberties. n.d.)

 

New Zealanders are currently unaware of what kind of surveillance the government is undertaking (MCCorkindale, W. 2013, June 11)

There is a lack of transparency in the current New Zealand Surveillance system

At Kreeper, we want to change this.
 
We're fascinated by the "creepiness factor" of surveillance.
Having a stranger, or even machine viewing your personal information on a regular basis seems alarmingly creepy. It also highlights how vulnerable we are 
without knowing it when being surveilled.
When someone is watching you under surveillance, it's an act that asserts their power over you (Beagle, T. 2016, June 01). If our country is being tracked, what does that say about the control the government is asserting over us (Do Not Track, 2015)
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What actually happens to our data and the information gathered from our surveillance?
What's done with our data to make us more secure?
We're interested in finding where the line between security and privacy sits (
Schneier, B. 2012, June 05).
How do you keep a society safe without invading people's privacy in the process?


By creating a Virtual reality experience, we want users to dip their toes in to what it feels like to be on the spying end of surveillance. We want kiwis to experience having power over someone normally in power. We want to show how perverted and de-humanising the experience can be.
Through this experience, we hope kiwis question what surveillance means for New Zealand and exactly how it aligns with our kiwi values of transparency and equality.



 

HOW

It works

HOW

A Timeline
By Bus:
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Launch online community​
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November 16
By Train:
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How

HOW

It works

Open app

Enter your details

Choose someone to spy on

Monitor them via live
 VR experience

HOW

A Timeline
October 16
November 16
February 17
March 17
Launch online community​
Begin app software development
Submissions for Kreepee nominees begin
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Approach nominees to participate in app
 
Reveal nominee participation 
 
Launch app with VR experience

 
Ongoing campaign
and VR app 
experience
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REFERENCES

REFERENCES



Beagle, T. (2016, June 01). It's about power, not privacy. Speech presented at Rotary Forum ­ The Privacy Security Dilemma.

Cullen, M., & Reddy, P. (n.d.). Intelligence and Security in a Free Society (Rep.). Retrieved from https://www.parliament.nz/resource/en-nz/51DBHOH_PAP68536_1/64eeb7436d6fd817fb382a2005988c74dabd21fe.

Do Not Track. (2015). Retrieved August 22, 2016, from https://donottrack-doc.com/en/intro/

Edwards, B. (2015, May 15). Spy agencies come under scrutiny. Radio NZ. Retrieved August 20, 2016, from http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/273673/spy-agencies-come-under-scrutiny

Greenwald, G., & Gallagher, R. (2014, September 15). NEW ZEALAND LAUNCHED MASS SURVEILLANCE PROJECT WHILE PUBLICLY DENYING IT. The Intercept. Retrieved August 21, 2016, from https://theintercept.com/2014/09/15/new-zealand-gcsb-speargun-mass-surveillance

Kirk, S. (2015, March 26). GCSB will be investigated over claims New Zealanders spied on in Pacific. Stuff. Retrieved August 21, 2016, from http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/67518446/gcsb-will-be-investigated-over-claims-new-zealanders-spied-on-in-pacific


MCCORKINDALE, W. (2013, June 11). Expert says Kiwis under constant surveillance. Stuff. Retrieved August 21, 2016, from http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/8782798/Expert-says-Kiwis-under-constant-surveillance

NZ Council for Civil Liberties. (n.d.). Retrieved August 22, 2016, from https://nzccl.org.nz/content/initial-reaction-new-zealand-security-intelligence-bill

Schneier, B (2012, June 05). Bruce Schneier (3/3) - Privacy in the Age of Big Data Forum, may 2012. Retrieved August 22, 2016, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLW7fkwN57k

Sachdeva, S. (2016, February 18). 'Falling behind' on privacy laws. Retrieved August 22, 2016, from http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/77020576/NZ-falling-behind-rest-of-world-on-privacy-laws-Privacy-Commissioner

Stroud, M. (2014). The minority report: Chicago's new police computer predicts crimes, but is it racist?. Retrieved August 22, 2016, from http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/19/5419854/the-minority-report-this-computer-predicts-crime-but-is-it-racist

Turnbull, M. (2014). NAVIGATING NEW ZEALAND’S DIGITAL FUTURE: CODING OUR WAY TO PRIVACY IN THE AGE OF ANALYTICS (Doctoral dissertation, University of Otago, 2014) [Abstract]. Otago Yearbook of Legal Research 2014.

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