Image Credit: Talisman Brolin / Courtesy of Risa Puno via Mashable

Talking to ProPublica, the artist revealed that people were happy to sign away their name, address, driver's license number, phone number and their mother's maiden name. As part of the deal, Puno also took pictures of each candidate, and in some cases asked for (and got) fingerprints and the last four digits of what people claimed was their social security number. If anyone asked what she planned to do with the information, the artist pointed to a terms and conditions sheet written in impossibly small text mirroring the sort we routinely ignore when we sign up to a new website.



Overall, 380 people participated in the event, but Puno has yet to decide what to do with the data, although she does have the right to share and display the information in public. We're sure that plenty of people faked their social security numbers, but perhaps this is a lesson that, if we don't want to be worrying about what Risa Puno is doing with our fingerprints, we should all take a little more care of our privacy.