The NSA revelations might have spurred debate over online privacy issues in the context of social media but, paradoxically, more people share more information about themselves than ever before. In response to the current discussion, Xuedi Chen and Pedro Oliveira, two students in the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University, have created a fashion garment that physically marks the loss of privacy as we produce online data.

Called x.pose, the 3D printed corset communicates via Bluetooth with a mobile app that chronicles the wearer’s data trail over time. The garment is divided up into patches that represent different neighbourhoods and, as the wearer gets near a certain neighbourhood, the patches change their opacity, exposing more skin and revealling how much data is being collected about her.

x.pose is ”an exploration and commentary on the current internet culture of our generation and the relationship we share with our data”, according to the designers and, similar to Focus, it hopes to draw attention to our habitual online ‘nudity’ state.