Person X

What would it mean if the treatment of our private data, which is not accessible to everyone now, develops in the course of the next few decades in such a way that it becomes accessible to everyone and defines our status in society? Would this change also entail increased monitoring?

Why is a part of the surveillance, (public surveillance) perceived and another part more or less ignored by most of the people (mobile surveillance, social media) although we are also aware of the ignored part? Is this second part of the monitoring, which is being ignored, more dangerous if it could be used limitlessly?

This video is set in the winter of 2070. We have 2 stories of two different and independent actors recording themselves. Actor 1 talks about cars. Actor 2 presents his new robotic dog. After these short stories, the data is scanned by an AI algorithm and  finds person X in the background of the two videos. A blinking square appears. In the next few seconds, it is revealed that videos of different origins were scanned, and one can see the face of person X in a blinking square on many different screens. The video ends with a “match found” signalation that appears over the screens.

Person X was always recorded unconsciously. We do not see person X filming herself. So, without creating data of her own and without using public surveillance, person X was still found by the AI through the data of others.