Mechanical Rights

a collaboration on the declaration of human rights

Mechanical Rights - Collaboration on Human Rights

Mechanical Rights is a Chrome extension that allows users to collaborate on the redaction of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by contributing every keystroke typed in their browser. It does not gather personal information and emails completed copies to individuals around the world as a reminder.

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This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2024-02-03

By: https://pierredepaz.net

Users: 5

Version: 1.2 (Last updated: 2017-10-12)

Creation date: 2017-10-12

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood:

High risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

tabs

Size: 61.01K

URLs: Website

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The Work of Human Rights in the Age of Mechanical Keyboards is a networked art project in which anyone with this extension installed will be contributing every keystroke typed in their browser to a collaborative redaction of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Every completed copy will then be e-mailed to individuals around the world who could use a reminder.

DISCLAIMER - While this extension asks for invasive permissions, it does not gather or store any personal information (e.g. IP address, location, which key was pressed) it only forwards any keypress to the main website.

More details at: http://pierredepaz.net/-/mechanical-rights/index.html

Version 1.2 update: now uses HTTPS for socket communication.