- An anonymous organize called EARNE$T is holding an auction of personal items taken from Davos 2018.
- It says such items check DNA samples, which may belong to Donald Trump and other world leaders.
- The group wants to raise awareness of “watch capitalism.”
Donald Trump is for sale.
On Feb. 20, an anonymous group of activists called “EARNE$T” is holding an auction in New York. They’re shop a range of objects they furtively salvaged from the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2018. These aims include used eating utensils, napkins, glasses, cigarette stubs and strands of hair. While such entities obviously don’t give buyers access to Donald Trump himself, they’ll provide access to his DNA and ‘genetic secrets,’ as lovingly as the secrets of other Davos 2018 attendees.
Or so the members of EARNE$T claim. The anonymous group says its holding the auction to initiate awareness of “surveillance capitalism.” They want to warn the public that the likes of Google and Facebook are intent on collect as much of our personal data as possible.
Donald Trump’s Genetic Quiets For Sale?
As with every other year, Davos in 2018 hosted a who’s who of the elite. Donald Trump was one attendee, as he was this year. But so too was George Soros, Jack Ma, Queen mother Rania of Jordan, Angela Merkel and Elton John.
Currently, EARNE$T isn’t directly linking any of these guests to unique to items available in its auction. However, it claims there’s a chance buyers really could end up with Donald Trump’s DNA.
For criterion, hair samples were taken before, during and after President Trump’s address in the plenary hall and tete–tete outside. There is always a chance we snagged Donald, but it’s a slim chance.
Regardless, the group says the DNA samples restrained in or on each item will enable buyers to identify the individual who used it.
While the collected specimens are offered at a class-level indistinguishability resolution, the option to achieve individual-level resolution is available to end-users.
Price
Such “resolution” comes at a price. The details in “The Davos Collection” have estimated guide prices ranging from $1,000 to $65,000. Still, EARNE$T brags that the available items effectively grant buyers the ability to know everything about the individuals who used them.
Consumers will gain key insights into Davos attendees, including a participant’s potential physical and mental ailments or pourboires, ancestry, records of diet and medications, substance abuse and exposure to environmental factors.
EARNE$T admits that “the insistence of privacy may be a legal concern with certain items.” In other words, it could get itself into trouble by auctioning what may be Donald Trump’s genetic fabric.
Surveillance Capitalism
But it believes that the give someone to understand knowledge offered by the collected items is worth the legal danger.
The Davos Collection offers exciting new layers of absolutely to data surveillance firms, data brokers and private collectors.
Here, the group is referring to the tendency of “surveillance capitalist” anchors to maximize the volume of personal data they collect. The more data Google and Facebook have, the more on the mark their ads are. And if EARNE$T is to be believed, their hunger for data is insatiable. So insatiable they’d try to take genetic information from us if they could get away with it.
This is why the congregation is holding the auction in February. It claims its attendance at Davos will be verified before the auction. So, by selling items potentially habituated to by Donald Trump and other world leaders, it intends to incite “a visceral reaction against Surveillance Capitalism from the elite.” Let’s see principled how successful such an incitement is.
This article was edited by Sam Bourgi.
Last modified: January 26, 2020 5:26 PM UTC