After making a mocking Facebook spoof and getting folks like us to link to it, thedatadrive.com is selling the “bespoke user data” gathered from visits—as a thumbdrive, on freakin’ eBay.
On August 4th, we launched The Data Drive (www.thedatadrive.com), a sprawling dystopian Facebook spoof fashioned out of paper cut-outs by Daniel Kolitz. The premise of The Data Drive was that Mark Zuckerberg had fled Facebook with all of its user data and now the company had to launch a “data drive” to replenish data stores. … What most of the coverage missed, however, was that The Data Drive really was collecting user data. The website featured two fields where visitors could anonymously enter any text they wanted. (The fields are on this page and this page.)
These submissions were sent directly to our servers for processing. Now we are thrilled to offer this cache of user data to the highest bidder. Own a piece of internet history!
Literally a data drive.