With the speed at which digital technology develops, personal privacy is becoming an increasingly important issue. Many people seem willing to sacrifice their privacy and share personal information in order to use digital communication. Others have begun to use technology to protect their privacy and take control of their digital lives. This raises the question of whether it is possible to achieve total privacy while still getting the benefit from digital communication technologies.

The Republic of Privacy is a fictional nation where people can live in absolute privacy. This project starts with a simple question: What kinds of new systems are needed to guarantee a life that is 100% private?

This project attempts to examine three questions around this issue: How to respect individual boundaries in the sharing of personal information, how to be free from written personal data storage and how to be free from identity analysis by unknown observers and organisations. This project responds to these questions by imagining alternative systems in different sectors: A marriage ritual - Identity Marriage, personal identification - Sniffer Dog Authentication and a language system - Chromatic Encryption. The project illustrates this speculative scenario through an anthropologist's approach of examining physical-cultural elements of the society, such as technological applications, costumes, languages and mannerisms.

• Park, Soomi. 2013 The Republic of Privacy: Sniffer Dog Authentication. [Project]
• Park, Soomi and Wells, Owen. 2020. Between Dreamy and Dreary: Fiction in Design. In: "Between Dreamy and Dreary: Fiction in Design", Celine Park Gallery, Korea, Republic of, 21 Aug – 21 Nov 2020. [Show/Exhibition]
• Park, Soomi. 2019. The Republic of Privacy. In: "The Paradox Of Privacy", Accenture The Dock, Dublin, Ireland, 8 July - 9 September 2019. [Show/Exhibition]

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/35451