Ghosts from your e-waste

Can we be haunted by data having vanished?
As delegating e-waste recycling has become a fruitful industry, at the expense of local workers and population, some find a surprising form of value in those decayed data receptacles.

Posing as half-sorcerers, half-hackers, they extract the remaining data from e-waste to send them haunting back their original owners. The ghosts from their e-waste will keep tormenting the former users, in the hope of awakening their ecological consciousness or extorting money from their guilty feelings.

Read the article below or download it as .pdf document:

An interview with Rudra, a sorcerer looking for ghosts data - part 1
An interview with Rudra, a sorcerer looking for ghosts data - part 2
An interview with Rudra, a sorcerer looking for ghosts data - part 3