Katja Trinkwalder and Pia-Marie Stute have designed a series of add-on accessories for those who are concerned about surveillance and their data security.
The project, called Accessories For The Paranoid, explores an alternative approach to data security through four different "parasitic" objects.
These include a webcam that projects fabricated scenes and a button that generates fake online data.
These objects work to block or thwart the collection of people's user information in different ways by generating fake data to blur their digital profiles, hiding users' true data identities behind "a veil of fictive information".

"When you consider data as the oil of the 21st century, each of us is sitting on a small ground treasure ? a resource that is being discretely mined by the most valuable companies in the world," said the designers. "As users of modern services and products, we have long become habituated to trade-offs in which 'free' services are offered in exchange for some bits of our personal data."

The internet of things has introduced a new kind of object into our homes that depend on collecting this information.
These products are able to observe the users, learn from their observations and then make their own decisions without further human interference.
"With the comfort of automation also comes a subtle danger in our connected devices, which process personal information about their users every day," said the Col...