ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Hasan Elahi - Privacy artist
In 2002, American artist Hasan Elahi’s name was added (by mistake) to the US government’s watch list.

Why you should listen

That led to an intensive investigation by the FBI. After months of interrogations, Elahi was finally cleared of suspicions but advised to keep the FBI informed of his whereabouts. Which he did -- fully, by opening up just about every aspect of his life to the public. What started with a practicality grew into an open-ended art project, with Elahi posting photos of his minute-by-minute life online (hotel rooms, airports, meals, receipts, bathrooms), tracking himself on Google Maps, releasing communication records, banking transactions and transportation logs, and more. The project questions the consequences of living under constant surveillance, and it has been presented at Centre Pompidou in Paris and at the Venice Biennale, among others. He is an associate professor of Art at University of Maryland, roughly equidistant from the CIA, FBI and NSA headquarters.

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Hasan Elahi: FBI, here I am!

Hasan Elahi: FBI, ovdje sam!

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Nakon što je zabunom završio na popisu za nadzor, Hasanu Elahiju lokalni agenti FBI-a savjetovali su da ih obavijesti svaki put kad bude namjeravao putovati. Učinio je to i više od toga...mnogo više.
- Privacy artist
In 2002, American artist Hasan Elahi’s name was added (by mistake) to the US government’s watch list. Full bio

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HiBok there. I'm HasanHasan. I'm an artistumjetnik.
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Bok svima, ja sam Hasan. Umjetnik sam.
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And usuallyobično when I tell people I'm an artistumjetnik,
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Inače kad kažem ljudima da sam umjetnik
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they just look at me and say, "Do you paintboja?"
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samo me gledaju i kažu: "Slikaš li?"
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or "What kindljubazan of mediumsrednji do you work in?"
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ili " U kakvom mediju radiš?"
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Well mostnajviše of my work that I work with
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Većina rada kojim se bavim
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is really a little bitbit about methodologiesmetodologija of workingrad
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zapravo je više o metodologiji rada
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ratherradije than actuallyzapravo a specificspecifično disciplinedisciplina
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nego o nekoj specifičnoj disciplini
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or a specificspecifično techniquetehnika.
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ili specifičnoj tehnici.
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So what I'm really interestedzainteresiran in is creativekreativan problemproblem solvingrješavanje.
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Ono što me zaista zanima jest kreativno rješavanje problema.
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And I had a little bitbit of a problemproblem a fewnekoliko yearsgodina agoprije.
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A imao sam malih problema prije nekoliko godina.
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So let me showpokazati you a little of that.
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Pokazat ću vam nešto od toga.
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So it startedpočeo over here.
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Počelo je ovdje.
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And this is the DetroitDetroit airportzračna luka in JuneLipnja 19thth of 2002.
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A to je zračna luka u Detroitu 19. lipnja 2002.
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I was flyingleteći back to the U.S. from an exhibitionizložba overseasu inozemstvo.
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Vraćao sam se u SAD s izložbe u inozemstvu.
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And as I was comingdolazak back,
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Kad sam se vraćao,
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well I was takenpoduzete by the FBIFBI-A, metsastali by an FBIFBI-A agentAgente,
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presreo me FBI, prišao mi je agent FBI-a,
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and wentotišao into a little roomsoba
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ušli smo u malu sobu,
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and he askedpitao me all sortsvrste of questionspitanja --
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i on me pitao svakakva pitanja --
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"Where were you? What were you doing? Who were you talkingkoji govori with?
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"Gdje ste bili? Što ste radili? S kime ste razgovarali?
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Why were you there? Who paysplaća for your tripsputovanja?" --
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Zašto ste bili ondje? Tko Vam plaća putovanja?" --
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all these little detailsdetalji.
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sve te sitne pojedinosti.
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And then literallydoslovce just out of nowherenigdje,
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A tada, doslovce iz vedra neba,
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the guy askspita me, "Where were you SeptemberRujna 12thth?"
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tip me upita: "Gdje ste bili 12. rujna?"
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And when mostnajviše of us get askedpitao, "Where were you SeptemberRujna 12thth?"
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Kad se većinu nas pita: "Gjde ste bili 12. rujna?"
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or any datedatum for that factčinjenica,
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ili zapravo bilo kojeg drugog datuma,
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it's like, "I don't exactlytočno rememberzapamtiti, but I can look it up for you."
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kažemo: "Ne sjećam se točno, ali mogu provjeriti."
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So I pulledizvukao out my little PDAPDA,
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Tako sam izvukao svoj dlanovnik
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and I said, "Okay, let's look up my appointmentsobveze for SeptemberRujna 12thth."
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i rekao: " OK, pogledajmo moje sastanke 12. rujna."
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I had SeptemberRujna 12thth -- from 10:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., I paidplaćen my storageskladištenje billračun.
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12. rujna imao sam -- od 10 h do 10:30 platio sam račun za skladištenje.
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From 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., I metsastali with JudithJudith who was one of my graduatediplomirani studentsstudenti at the time.
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Od 10:30 do 12 susreo sam se s Judith, koja je tada bila moja studentica.
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From 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., I taughtučio my introUvod classklasa,
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Od 12 do 15 h poučavao sam studente prve godine,
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3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., I taughtučio my advancednapredan classklasa.
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i od 15 do 18 h poučavao sam na naprednom kolegiju.
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"Where were you the 11thth?" "Where were you the 10thth?"
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"Gdje ste bili 11.? Gdje ste bili 10.?"
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"Where were you the 29thth? the 30thth?"
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"Gdje ste bili 29., 30.?"
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"Where were you OctoberTravanj 5thth?"
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"Gdje ste bili 5. listopada?"
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We readčitati about sixšest monthsmjeseci of my calendarkalendar.
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Pročitali smo oko šest mjeseci iz mog kalendara.
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And I don't think he was expectingočekujući me to have suchtakav detaileddetaljne recordsploče
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Mislim da nije očekivao da imam tako detaljnu evidenciju
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of what I did.
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o tome što sam radio.
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But good thing I did,
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Ali dobro da jesam
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because I don't look good in orangenarančasta.
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jer mi narančasto baš ne stoji.
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(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Smijeh)
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So he askedpitao me --
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Zatim me pitao --
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(ApplausePljesak)
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(Pljesak)
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"So this storageskladištenje unitjedinica that you paidplaćen the rentnajam on,
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"Dakle, skladište, za koje ste plaćali najam,
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what did you have in it?"
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što ste imali u njemu?"
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This was in TampaTampa, FloridaFlorida,
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To je bilo u Tampi, na Floridi,
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so I was like, "WinterZima clothesodjeća that I have no use for in FloridaFlorida.
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pa sam rekao: "Zimsku odjeću koju na Floridi ne trebam.
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FurnitureNamještaj that I can't fitodgovara in my rattypacovski apartmentapartman.
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Namještaj koji ne stane u moj šugavi stan.
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Just assortedizabrane garagegaraža saleProdaja junkstarudija,
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Različite stvari s rasprodaja,
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because I'm a packpaket ratštakor."
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jer skupljam rabljene stvari."
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And he looksizgled at me really confusedzbunjen and sayskaže, "No explosiveseksploziva?"
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Gledao me zbunjeno i upitao: "Nije bilo eksploziva?"
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(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Smijeh)
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I was like, "No, no. I'm prettyprilično certainsiguran there were no explosiveseksploziva.
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Rekoh: "Ne, ne. Prilično sam siguran da nije bilo eksploziva.
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And if there were, I would have rememberedsjetio that one."
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Kad bi ga bilo, toga bih se sigurno sjetio."
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And he's still a little confusedzbunjen,
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I dalje je bio zbunjen,
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but I think that anyonebilo tko who talksrazgovori to me for more than a couplepar of minutesminuta
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ali mislim da svatko tko sa mnom razgovara više od nekoliko minuta
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realizesshvaća I'm not exactlytočno a terroristterorist threatprijetnja.
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shvati da ja i nisam baš neka teroristička prijetnja.
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And so we're sittingsjedenje there,
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I tako smo sjedili ondje,
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and eventuallyeventualno after about an hoursat, hoursat and a halfpola of just going back and forthdalje,
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i na kraju, otprilike nakon sat, sat i pol natezanja,
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he sayskaže, "Okay, I have enoughdovoljno informationinformacija here.
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rekao je: "OK, imam dovoljno informacija.
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I'm going to passproći this ontona the TampaTampa officeured. They're the onesone who initiatedpokrenut this.
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Proslijedit ću to uredu u Tampi. Oni su ovo pokrenuli.
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They'llOni će followslijediti up with you, and we'lldobro take carebriga of it."
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Oni će vam se javiti, a mi ćemo se za to pobrinuti."
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I was like, "Great."
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Rekoh: "Odlično."
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So I got home and the phonetelefon ringsprstenovi,
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Stigao sam kući, telefon je zazvonio,
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and a man introduceduvedena himselfsam.
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i čovjek se predstavio.
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BasicallyU osnovi this is the FBIFBI-A officesuredi in TampaTampa
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Uglavnom, to je bio ured FBI-a u Tampi,
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where I spentpotrošen sixšest monthsmjeseci of my life --
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gdje sam proveo šest mjeseci života --
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back and forthdalje, not sixšest monthsmjeseci continuouslyneprekidno.
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povremeno, ne kontinuirano šest mjeseci.
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By the way, you folksljudi know that in the UnitedUjedinjeni StatesDržava,
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Usput, ljudi, znate li da u SAD-u
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you can't take photographsfotografije of federalfederalni buildingsgrađevine,
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ne smijete fotografirati savezne zgrade,
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but GoogleGoogle can do it for you.
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ali Google to može učiniti za vas?
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So to the folksljudi from GoogleGoogle, thank you.
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Dakle, hvala ljudima iz Googlea.
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(ApplausePljesak)
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(Pljesak)
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So I spentpotrošen a lot of time in this buildingzgrada.
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Dakle, proveo sam mnogo vremena u ovoj zgradi.
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QuestionsPitanja like:
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Pitanja poput:
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"Have you ever witnessedsvjedoci or participatedsudjelovao in any actčin
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"Jeste li ikad svjedočili ili sudjelovali u ikakvom činu
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that maysvibanj be detrimentalštetne to the UnitedUjedinjeni StatesDržava or a foreignstrana nationnarod?"
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koji bi mogao biti štetan za SAD ili neku stranu naciju?"
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And you alsotakođer have to considerrazmotriti the statedržava of mindum you're in
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Morate uzeti u obzir i stanje svijesti u kojem se nalazite
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when you're doing this.
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kad to radite.
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You're basicallyu osnovi face-to-facelicem u lice with someonenetko
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Suočeni ste licem u lice s nekim
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that essentiallyu srži decidesodlučuje life or deathsmrt.
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tko u suštini odlučuje o vašem životu i smrti.
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Or questionspitanja suchtakav as -- actuallyzapravo, duringza vrijeme the polygraphpoligraf,
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Ili pitanja kao npr. -- zapravo, za vrijeme testiranja poligrafom,
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whichkoji was how it finallykonačno endedzavršeno after ninedevet consecutiveuzastopnih of them --
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kako je zapravo konačno završilo nakon njih devet za redom --
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one of the polygraphpoligraf questionspitanja was ...
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jedno od pitanja na poligrafu bilo je --
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well the first one was, "Is your nameime HasanHasan?" "Yes."
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no, prvo je bilo: "Je li Vaše ime Hasan?" "Da."
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"Are we in FloridaFlorida?" "Yes." "Is todaydanas TuesdayUtorak?" "Yes."
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"Jesmo li na Floridi?", "Da.", " Je li danas utorak?", "Da."
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Because you have to basebaza it on a yes or no.
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Jer odgovori moraju biti "da" ili "ne".
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Then, of coursenaravno, the nextSljedeći questionpitanje is:
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Tada, naravno, sljedeće je pitanje:
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"Do you belongpripadati to any groupsgrupe that wishželja to harmšteta the UnitedUjedinjeni StatesDržava?"
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"Pripadate li kakvoj grupi koja bi željela nauditi SAD-u?"
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I work at a universitysveučilište.
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Radim na sveučilištu.
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(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Smijeh)
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So I was like, "Maybe you want to askpitati some of my colleagueskolege that directlydirektno."
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Pa rekoh: "Možda to želite direktno pitati neke od mojih kolega."
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But they said, "Okay, asideu stranu from what we had discussedraspravljati,
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No, oni su rekli: "OK, osim onoga o čemu smo razgovarali,
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do you belongpripadati to any groupsgrupe that wishželja to harmšteta the UnitedUjedinjeni StatesDržava?"
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pripadate li Vi ikojoj grupi koja želi nauditi SAD-u?"
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I was like, "No."
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Rekoh: "Ne."
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So at the endkraj of sixšest monthsmjeseci of this
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Na kraju, nakon šest mjeseci ovoga
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and ninedevet consecutiveuzastopnih polygraphspoligrafi,
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i devet uzastopnih poligrafa,
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they said, "Hey, everything'ssve je fine."
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rekli su: "Hej, sve je u redu."
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I was like, "I know. That's what I've been tryingtežak to tell you guys all alonguz.
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Rekoh: " Znam. Pa to vam pokušavam reći cijelo vrijeme.
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I know everything'ssve je fine."
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Znam da je sve u redu."
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So they're looking at me really oddneparan.
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Pa su me pogledali vrlo čudno.
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And it's like, "Guys, I travelputovati a lot."
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I rekao sam: "Ljudi, ja mnogo putujem."
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This is with the FBIFBI-A.
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To je kod FBI-a.
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And I was like, "All we need is AlaskaAljaska not to get the last memodopis,
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Nastavio sam: "Ako Aljaska ne dobije najnoviji dopis,
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and here we go all over again."
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sve će opet krenuti ispočetka."
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And there was a sincereIskreno concernbriga there.
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Bila je to iskrena zabrinutost.
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And he was like, "You know, if you get into troublenevolja,
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Rekao je: "Znate, ako zapadnete u nevolje,
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give us a call -- we'lldobro take carebriga of it."
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nazovite nas -- pobrinut ćemo se za to."
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So ever sinceod then, before I would go anywherebilo kuda, I would call the FBIFBI-A.
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Od tada, prije nego bih ikamo otputovao, uvijek sam nazvao FBI.
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I would tell them, "Hey guys, this is where I'm going. This is my flightlet.
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Rekao bih im: " Hej, dečki, evo kamo putujem. Ovo je moj let.
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NorthwestSjeverozapad flightlet sevensedam comingdolazak into SeattleSeattle
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Northwestov let br. 7 sa slijetanjem u Seattleu
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on MarchOžujak 12thth" or whateveršto god.
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12. ožujka" ili kako već.
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A couplepar weeksTjedni laterkasnije, I'd call again, let them know.
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Nakon nekoliko tjedana opet sam zvao, obavijestio ih.
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It wasn'tnije that I had to, but I choseizabrati to.
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Nije bilo potrebno, ali odlučio sam da hoću.
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Just wanted to say, "Hey guys.
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Htio sam im poručiti: "Hej, dečki,
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Don't want to make it look like I'm makingizrađivanje any suddennaglo movespotezi."
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ne želim da pomislite da radim neke iznenadne poteze."
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(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Smijeh)
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"I don't want you guys to think that I'm about to fleepobjeći.
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"Neću da pomislite da želim pobjeći.
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Just lettingiznajmljivanje you know. HeadsGlave up."
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Samo vas obavještavam. Tek toliko da znate."
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And so I just keptčuva doing this over and over and over.
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I to sam i dalje uporno radio.
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And then the phonetelefon callspozivi turnedokrenut into emailse-mail,
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Onda su se telefonski pozivi pretvorili u e-mailove,
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and the emailse-mail got longerviše and longerviše and longerviše ...
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koji su postajali sve dulji i dulji...
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with picturesSlike,
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s fotografijama
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with travelputovati tipsSavjeti.
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i savjetima za putovanja.
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Then I'd make websitesweb stranice.
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Zatim sam radio web stranice.
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And then I builtizgrađen this over here. Let me go back to it over here.
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A onda sam izgradio ovo. Vratio bih se na ovo ovdje.
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So I actuallyzapravo designedkonstruiran this back in 2003.
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Ovo sam dizajnirao 2003. godine.
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So this kindljubazan of trackspjesme me at any givendan momenttrenutak.
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To me prati u svakom trenutku.
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I wrotenapisao some codekodirati for my mobilemobilni phonetelefon.
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Napisao sam kȏd za svoj mobitel.
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BasicallyU osnovi, what I decidedodlučio is okay guys, you want to watch me, that's coolsvjež.
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Odlučio sam, u redu, dečki, želite me nadgledati, može.
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But I'll watch myselfsebe. It's okay.
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Ali ja ću sam sebe nadgledati. To je OK.
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You don't have to wastegubljenje your energyenergija or your resourcesresursi.
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Nećete morati trošiti svoju energiju ili sredstva.
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And I'll help you out.
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Pomoći ću vam.
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So in the processpostupak, I startpočetak thinkingmišljenje, well what elsedrugo mightmoć they know about me?
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I tako sam počeo razmišljati što još oni možda znaju o meni?
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Well they probablyvjerojatno have all my flightlet recordsploče,
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Vjerojatno imaju podatke o svim mojim letovima,
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so I decidedodlučio to put all my flightlet recordsploče from birthrođenja onlinena liniji.
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pa sam odlučio objaviti sve podatke o svojim letovima od svog rođenja.
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So you can see, DeltaDelta 1252
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Vidite, Delta 1252,
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going from KansasKansas CityGrad to AtlantaAtlanta.
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let od Kansas Cityja do Atlante.
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And then you see, these are some of the mealsjela that I've been fedhranjen on the planeszrakoplovi.
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Vidite, ovo su neka od jela koja sam dobio u zrakoplovima.
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This was on DeltaDelta 719
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Ovo je bilo na letu Delta 719
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going from JFKJFK to SanSan FranciscoFrancisco.
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od New Yorka prema San Franciscu.
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See that? They won'tnavika let me on a planeavion with that,
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Vidite ovo? Neće me pustiti u avion s tim,
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but they'lloni će give it to me on the planeavion.
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ali dat će mi ga na avionu.
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(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Smijeh)
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These are the airportszračne luke that I hangobjesiti out in,
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Ovo su aerodromi na kojima se zadržavam,
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because I like airportszračne luke.
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jer volim aerodrome.
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That's KennedyKennedy airportzračna luka, MaySvibanj 19thth, TuesdayUtorak.
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To je aerodrom Kennedy, 19. svibnja, utorak.
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This is in WarsawVaršava.
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Ovo je u Varšavi.
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SingaporeSingapur. You can see, they're kindljubazan of emptyprazan.
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Singapur. Vidite da su nekako prazni.
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These imagesslika are shotšut really anonymouslyanonimno
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Ove su fotografije snimljene zaista anonimno
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to the pointtočka where it could be anyonebilo tko.
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tako da bi to lako mogao biti bilo tko.
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But if you can cross-referenceunakrsne reference this with the other datapodaci,
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No, ako ovo usporedite s drugim podacima,
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then you're basicallyu osnovi replayingreplaying the rollsvitak of the FBIFBI-A agentAgente
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tada zapravo igrate ulogu FBI-evog agenta
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and puttingstavljanje it all togetherzajedno.
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i sastavljate sve zajedno u cjelinu.
06:29
And when you're in a situationsituacija
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Kad ste u situaciji
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where you have to justifyopravdati everysvaki momenttrenutak of your existencepostojanje,
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gdje morate opravdati svaki trenutak svojeg postojanja,
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you're put in the situationsituacija where you reactreagirati in a very differentdrugačiji mannerdržanje.
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stavljeni ste u situaciju u kojoj reagirate mnogo drugačije.
06:36
At the time that this was going on,
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Kad se sve ovo događalo,
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the last thing on my mindum was "artumjetnost projectprojekt."
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zadnje što mi je bilo na pameti bio je "umjetnički projekt".
06:41
I was certainlysigurno not thinkingmišljenje, hey, I got newnovi work here.
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Sigurno nisam mislio, hej, evo mi novog posla.
06:44
But after going throughkroz this, after realizingrealizirati, well what just happeneddogodilo?
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No, kad sam promišljao o tome što se zapravo dogodilo
06:47
And after piecingPiecing togetherzajedno this, this and this,
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i nakon što sam sastavio ovo, ovo i ovo,
06:49
this way of actuallyzapravo tryingtežak to figurelik out what happeneddogodilo for myselfsebe
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način na koji sam pokušavao shvatiti što mi se dogodilo
06:52
eventuallyeventualno evolvedrazvio into this,
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s vremenom se razvio u ovo
06:54
and it actuallyzapravo becamepostao this projectprojekt.
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i zapravo je postalo ovaj projekt.
06:57
So these are the storestrgovinama that I shopdućan in -- some of them --
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Ovo su dućani u kojima kupujem -- neki od njih --
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because they need to know.
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jer trebaju znati.
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This is me buyingkupovina some duckpatka flavoreds okusom pastezalijepiti
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Ovdje ja kupujem pastu s okusom patke
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at the RanchRanč 99 in DalyDaly CityGrad
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u trgovini Ranch 99, u Daly Cityju
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on SundayNedjelja, NovemberStudeni 15thth.
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u nedjelju, 15. studenog.
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At CoreanaCoreana SupermarketSupermarketa
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U supermarketu Coreana
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buyingkupovina my kimchikimchi because I like kimchikimchi.
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kupujem kimči, jer volim kimči.
07:11
And I boughtkupio some crabsrakovi too right around there,
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A kupio sam i nekoliko rakova u blizini
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and some chitlinsSvinjska creva at the SafewayGotovu hranu in EmoryvilleEmoryville.
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i nešto iznutrica u Safewayu u Emoryvilleu.
07:17
And laundrypraonica rublja too. LaundryPraonica rublja detergentdeterdžent at WestZapad OaklandOakland --
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I rublje. Sredstvo za pranje rublja u zapadnom Oaklandu --
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EastIstok OaklandOakland, sorry.
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istočnom Oaklandu, oprostite.
07:21
And then my pickledkiseli jellyfishMeduza
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I ukiseljene meduze
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at the HongHong KongKong SupermarketSupermarketa on RouteRuta 18 in EastIstok BrunswickBrunswick.
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u supermarketu Hong Kong na cesti Route 18, u istočnom Brunswicku.
07:26
Now if you go to my bankbanka recordsploče,
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Ako pogledamo moje bankovne izvještaje,
07:28
it'llto će actuallyzapravo showpokazati something from there,
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oni će pokazati nešto iz tih krajeva
07:30
so you know that, on MaySvibanj 9thth,
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tako da znate da sam 9. svibnja
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that I boughtkupio $14.79 in fuelgorivo from SafewayGotovu hranu VallejoVallejo.
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za 14,79 dolara kupio gorivo u Safewayu u Valleju.
07:35
So not only that I'm givingdavanje this informationinformacija here and there,
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Dakle, ne samo da dijelim takve informacije,
07:39
but now there's a thirdtreći partystranka,
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nego postoji i treća strana,
07:41
an independentsamostalan thirdtreći partystranka, my bankbanka,
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neovisna treća strana, moja banka
07:44
that's verifyingprovjera that, yes indeeddoista, I was there at this time.
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koja potvrđuje da sam zaista tada bio ondje.
07:46
So there's pointsbodova, and these pointsbodova are actuallyzapravo beingbiće cross-referencedUsporedio.
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To su različite točke koje je moguće unakrsno provjeriti.
07:49
And there's a verificationprovjera takinguzimanje placemjesto.
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Događa se verifikacija.
07:51
SometimesPonekad they're really smallmali purchaseskupi.
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Ponekad se radi o doista malim iznosima.
07:53
So 34 centscenti foreignstrana transactiontransakcije feepristojba.
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Trošak međunarodne transakcije u iznosu 34 centa.
07:55
All of these are extractedizvađen directlydirektno from my bankbanka accountsračuni,
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Sve je to moguće vidjeti direktno iz mojih bankovnih računa,
07:58
and everything popsStari up right away.
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sve je odmah dostupno.
08:00
SometimesPonekad there's a lot of informationinformacija.
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Ponekad ima mnogo informacija.
08:02
This is exactlytočno where my oldstar apartmentapartman in SanSan FranciscoFrancisco was.
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Upravo ovdje bio je moj stari stan u San Franciscu.
08:06
And then sometimesponekad you get this.
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A onda ponekad dobijete i ovo.
08:08
SometimesPonekad you just get this, just an emptyprazan hallwayhodnik in SaltSoli LakeJezero CityGrad,
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Ponekad dobijete ovo, prazan hodnik u Salt Lake Cityju,
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JanuarySiječanj 22ndSjeverna Dakota.
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22. siječnja.
08:12
And I can tell you exactlytočno who I was with, where I was,
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Točno vam mogu reći s kime sam bio, gdje sam bio,
08:14
because this is what I had to do with the FBIFBI-A.
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jer to je ono što sam morao reći FBI-u.
08:16
I had to tell them everysvaki little detaildetalj of everything.
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Morao sam im reći svaku malu pojedinost o svemu.
08:18
I spendprovesti a lot of time on the roadcesta.
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Mnogo vremena provodim na putu.
08:20
This is a parkingparkiralište lot in ElkoElko, NevadaNevada
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Ovdje je parkiralište u Elku, u Nevadi,
08:22
off of RouteRuta 80
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na izlazu s ceste Route 80
08:24
at 8:01 p.m. on AugustKolovoz 19thth.
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u 20:01 h, 19. kolovoza.
08:26
I spendprovesti a lot of time in gasplin stationsstanice too -- emptyprazan trainvlak stationsstanice.
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Provodim mnogo vremena i na benzinskim crpkama... praznim željezničkim stanicama.
08:29
So there's multiplevišekratnik databasesbaza podataka.
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Ovdje je više baza podataka.
08:31
And there's thousandstisuća and thousandstisuća and thousandstisuća of imagesslika.
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I ovdje su na tisuće i tisuće fotografija..
08:34
There's actuallyzapravo 46,000 imagesslika right now on my sitemjesto,
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u ovom trenutku na mojoj stranici nalazi se 46 000 fotografija,
08:37
and the FBIFBI-A has seenvidio all of them --
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a FBI ih je sve vidio --
08:40
at leastnajmanje I trustpovjerenje they'vešto ga do seenvidio all of them.
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barem vjerujem da su ih sve vidjeli.
08:43
And then sometimesponekad you don't get much informationinformacija at all,
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A ponekad uopće ne dobijete mnogo informacija,
08:46
you just get this emptyprazan bedkrevet.
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dobijete samo ovakav prazan krevet.
08:48
And sometimesponekad you get a lot of texttekst informationinformacija and no visualvidni informationinformacija.
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A ponekad dobijete mnogo teksta bez slike.
08:51
So you get something like this.
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Pa dobijete nešto ovakvo.
08:53
This, by the way, is the locationmjesto of my favoriteljubimac sandwichsendvič shopdućan in CaliforniaCalifornia --
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Ovo je, inače, lokacija mog omiljenog dućana sa sendvičima u Kaliforniji --
08:55
Vietnamesevijetnamski sandwichsendvič.
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Vijetnamski sendvič.
08:57
So there's differentdrugačiji categorizationskategorizacije
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Postoje različite kategorije
08:59
of mealsjela eatenjede outsideizvan
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jela koja sam pojeo vani,
09:01
emptyprazan trainvlak stationsstanice, emptyprazan gasplin stationsstanice.
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praznih željezničkih stanica, praznih benzinskih crpki.
09:04
These are some of the mealsjela that I've been cookingkuhanje at home.
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Ovo su neka od jela koja sam kuhao kod kuće.
09:06
So how do you know these are mealsjela eatenjede at home?
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Kako znate da sam ih pojeo kod kuće?
09:08
Well the sameisti plateploča showspokazuje up a wholečitav bunchmnogo of timesputa.
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Jer se mnogo puta pojavljuje isti tanjur.
09:11
So again, you have to do some detectiveDetektiv work here.
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I opet, morate biti pomalo detektivski nastrojeni.
09:14
So sometimesponekad the databasesbaza podataka get so specificspecifično.
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Ponekad baze podataka postanu vrlo specifične.
09:17
These are all tacostacos eatenjede in MexicoMeksiko CityGrad
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Ovdje su svi tacosi koje sam jeo u Mexico Cityju
09:19
nearblizu a trainvlak stationstanica
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blizu željezničke postaje
09:21
on JulySrpanj fifthpeti to JulySrpanj sixthšesti.
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5. i 6. srpnja.
09:24
At 11:39 a.m. was this one.
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Ovaj u 11:39 h.
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At 1:56 p.m. was this one. At 4:59 p.m. was this one.
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U 13:56 ovaj. U 16:59 ovaj.
09:29
So I time-stampVremenska oznaka my life everysvaki fewnekoliko momentstrenutke.
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Svoj život tako dokumentiram svakih nekoliko trenutaka.
09:32
EverySvaki fewnekoliko momentstrenutke I shootpucati the imageslika.
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Svako malo snimim fotografiju.
09:34
Now it's all doneučinio on my iPhoneiPhone,
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Sada sve to radim pomoću iPhonea,
09:36
and it all goeside straightravno up to my serverposlužitelj,
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sve ide ravno na moj server,
09:38
and my serverposlužitelj does all the backendpozadina work
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koji sve odradi,
09:40
and categorizeskategorizira things and putsstavlja everything togetherzajedno.
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razdijeli u kategorije i sve skupa sastavi.
09:43
They need to know where I'm doing my businessPoslovni,
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Moraju znati gdje idem obaviti neke stvari,
09:45
because they want to know about my businessPoslovni.
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jer ih zanima gdje obavljam te stvari.
09:48
So on DecemberProsinac 4thth, I wentotišao here.
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4. prosinca bio sam ovdje.
09:51
And on SundayNedjelja, JuneLipnja 14thth at 2009 --
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U nedjelju, 14. lipnja 2009...
09:54
this was actuallyzapravo about two o'clocksati in the afternoonposlijepodne
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bilo je zapravo oko 2 sata poslije podne
09:56
in SkowheganSkowhegan, MaineMaine -- this was my apartmentapartman there.
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u Skowheganu, u Maineu -- ovo je moj stan.
09:58
So what you're basicallyu osnovi seeingvidim here
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Ono što zapravo tu vidite,
10:01
is all bitskomadići and pieceskomada and all this informationinformacija.
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dijelovi su informacija.
10:03
If you go to my sitemjesto, there's tonstona of things.
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Ako odete na moju stranicu, naći ćete hrpe stvari.
10:06
And really, it's not the mostnajviše user-friendlyuser-friendly interfacesučelje.
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To sučelje i nije baš najbolje prilagođeno korisniku.
10:09
It's actuallyzapravo quitedosta user-unfriendlykorisnik, neprihvatljive.
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Zapravo je prilično neprilagođeno.
10:13
And one of the reasonsrazlozi, alsotakođer beingbiće partdio of the user-unfriendlinessuser-unfriendliness,
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Jedan od razloga i dio te neprilagođenosti korisniku jest
10:15
is that everything is there,
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to da se sve nalazi ondje,
10:17
but you have to really work throughkroz it.
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ali se morate probiti kroz to.
10:19
So by me puttingstavljanje all this informationinformacija out there,
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Time što objavljujem te informacije
10:23
what I'm basicallyu osnovi tellingreći you is I'm tellingreći you everything.
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zapravo vam govorim sve.
10:26
But in this barragebaraž of noisebuka
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A u toj buci
10:28
that I'm puttingstavljanje out,
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koju proizvodim
10:30
I actuallyzapravo liveživjeti an incrediblynevjerojatno anonymousanoniman and privateprivatna life.
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zapravo živim nevjerojatno anonimnim i privatnim životom.
10:34
And you know very little about me actuallyzapravo.
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I zapravo o meni znate vrlo malo.
10:38
And really so I've come to the conclusionzaključak
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Došao sam do zaključka
10:41
that the way you protectzaštititi your privacyprivatnost,
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da za zaštitu privatnosti,
10:43
particularlynaročito in an eradoba where everything is catalogedkatalogizirana
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naročito u razdoblju kad je sve katalogizirano
10:45
and everything is archivedu arhivi and everything is recordedzabilježena,
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i arhivirano i zabilježeno,
10:47
there's no need to deleteizbrisati informationinformacija anymoreviše.
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ne treba više brisati informacije.
10:50
So what do you do when everything is out there?
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Što učiniti kad je sve dostupno?
10:53
Well you have to take controlkontrolirati over it.
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Morate uzeti stvar u svoje ruke.
10:55
And if I give you this informationinformacija directlydirektno,
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Ako vam te podatke dajem izravno
10:58
it's a very differentdrugačiji typetip of identityidentitet
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to je sasvim drugačija vrsta identiteta
11:01
than if you were to try to go throughkroz and try to get bitskomadići and pieceskomada.
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nego kad bi netko pokušao pregledati sve i doći do informacija.
11:04
The other thing that's alsotakođer interestingzanimljiv that's going on here
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Druga zanimljiva stvar koja se događa
11:07
is the factčinjenica that intelligenceinteligencija agenciesagencije --
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da obavještajne službe,
11:09
and it doesn't matterstvar who they are --
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bez obzira koje,
11:12
they all operateraditi in an industryindustrija
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djeluju u branši
11:14
where theirnjihov commodityroba is informationinformacija,
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čija su roba informacije,
11:16
or restrictedograničen accesspristup to informationinformacija.
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odnosno ograničen pristup informacijama.
11:18
And the reasonrazlog theirnjihov informationinformacija has any valuevrijednost
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Razlog zašto njihove informacije imaju ikakvu vrijednost
11:21
is, well, because no one elsedrugo has accesspristup to it.
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jest u tome da nitko drugi nema pristup njima.
11:24
And by me cuttingrezanje out the middlesrednji man
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Ako ja maknem posrednika
11:26
and givingdavanje it straightravno to you,
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i sve vam to ponudim sam,
11:29
the informationinformacija that the FBIFBI-A has has no valuevrijednost,
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tada informacije koje ima FBI nemaju nikakvu vrijednost,
11:32
so thustako devaluingdevaluing theirnjihov currencyvaluta.
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što devalvira njihovu valutu.
11:35
And I understandrazumjeti that, on an individualpojedinac levelnivo,
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Razumijem da je to na individualnoj razini
11:37
it's purelypotpuno symbolicsimbolički.
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sasvim simbolična gesta.
11:39
But if 300 millionmilijuna people in the U.S.
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Ali ako bi 300 milijuna ljudi iz SAD-a
11:41
startedpočeo doing this,
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počelo to raditi,
11:43
we would have to redesignredizajn the entirečitav intelligenceinteligencija systemsistem
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morali bismo preoblikovati čitav obavještajni sustav
11:45
from the groundtlo up.
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ispočetka.
11:47
Because it just wouldn'tne bi work if everybodysvi was sharingdijeljenje everything.
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Jer kad bi svi dijelili sve, sustav ne bi funkcionirao.
11:50
And we're gettinguzimajući to that.
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I dolazimo do toga.
11:52
When I first startedpočeo this projectprojekt,
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Kad sam počeo s ovim projektom,
11:54
people were looking at me and sayingizreka,
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ljudi su me gledali i govorili:
11:56
"Why would you want to tell everybodysvi what you're doing, where you're at?
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"Zašto bi svima htio reći što radiš, gdje se nalaziš?"
11:59
Why are you postingpostavljanje these photosfotografije?"
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Zašto objavljuješ te fotografije?"
12:01
This was an agedob before people were TweetingTweeting everywheresvugdje, posvuda
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To je bilo prije nego što su ljudi posvuda počeli s tvitanjem
12:05
and 750 millionmilijuna people
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i prije nego što je 750 milijuna ljudi
12:08
were postingpostavljanje statusstatus messagesporuke
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objavljivalo statuse
12:10
or pokingbode people.
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ili bockalo druge ljude.
12:12
So in a way, I'm gladradostan that I'm completelypotpuno obsoletezastario.
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Na neki me način veseli da sam posve zastario.
12:15
I'm still doing this projectprojekt, but it is obsoletezastario,
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I dalje nastavljam s projektom, ali on je zastario
12:18
because you're all doing it.
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jer svi to rade.
12:20
This is something that we all are doing on a dailydnevno basisosnova,
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Svi mi to svakodnevno radimo,
12:22
whetherda li we're awaresvjestan of it or not.
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bili mi toga svjesni ili ne.
12:24
So we're creatingstvaranje our ownvlastiti archivesarhiva and so on.
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Stvaramo svoje vlastite arhive.
12:27
And you know, some of my friendsprijatelji have always said,
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Znate, neki su mi prijatelji uvijek govorili:
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"Hey, you're just paranoidparanoičan. Why are you doing this?
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"Ti si paranoičan. Zašto to radiš?
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Because no one'sjedan je really watchinggledanje.
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Nitko te zapravo ne prati.
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No one'sjedan je really going to bothersmeta you."
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Nitko te neće uznemiravati."
12:36
So one of the things that I do
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Tako je jedna od stvari koje radim
12:38
is I actuallyzapravo look throughkroz my serverposlužitelj logsdrva very carefullypažljivo.
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da detaljno pregledavam zapise na serveru.
12:40
Because it's about surveillanceprismotra.
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Jer radi se o nadzoru.
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I'm watchinggledanje who'stko je watchinggledanje me.
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Promatram one koji mene promatraju.
12:45
And I camedošao up with these.
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I došao sam do ovoga.
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So these are some of my sampleuzorak logsdrva.
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Ovo su primjeri zapisa.
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And just little bitskomadići and pieceskomada, and you can see some of the things there.
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To su sitnice, komadići informacija, kao što vidite.
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And I cleanedočišćeni up the listpopis a little bitbit so you can see.
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Malo sam očistio popis tako da lakše vidite.
12:55
So you can see that the HomelandDomovina SecuritySigurnost likessviđa to come by --
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Odmah je vidljivo da Ured za unutrašnju sigurnost rado navraća...
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DepartmentOdjel of HomelandDomovina SecuritySigurnost.
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Ured za unutarnju sigurnost.
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You can see the NationalNacionalne SecuritySigurnost AgencyAgencija likessviđa to come by.
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Vidite da Agencija za nacionalnu sigurnost rado svraća.
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I actuallyzapravo movedpomaknuto very closeblizu to them. I liveživjeti right down the streetulica from them now.
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Zapravo sam se preselio u njihovu blizinu. Živim u istoj ulici.
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CentralSredišnje IntelligenceInteligencija AgencyAgencija.
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Središnja obavještajna agencija (CIA).
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ExecutiveIzvršni OfficeUred of the PresidentPredsjednik.
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Izvršni ured predsjednika.
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Not really sure why they showpokazati up, but they do.
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Ne znam zašto oni dolaze, ali eto.
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I think they kindljubazan of like to look at artumjetnost.
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Mislim da rado gledaju umjetnost.
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And I'm gladradostan that we have patronspokrovitelji of the artsumjetnost in these fieldspolja.
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I veseli me da imamo pristaše umjetnosti u tim branšama.
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So thank you very much. I appreciatecijeniti it.
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Hvala vam lijepa. Cijenim to.
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(ApplausePljesak)
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(Pljesak)
13:33
BrunoBruno GiussaniGiussani: HasanHasan, just curiousznatiželjan.
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Bruno Giussani: Hasane, nešto me zanima.
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You said, "Now everything automaticallyautomatsko goeside from my iPhoneiPhone,"
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Rekao si:" Sada sve ide automatski s mojeg iPhonea,"
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but actuallyzapravo you do take the picturesSlike and put on informationinformacija.
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ali zapravo ti snimaš fotografije i objavljuješ informacije.
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So how manymnogi hourssati of the day does that take?
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Koliko ti to sati na dan uzme?
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HE: AlmostGotovo nonenijedan.
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HE: Skoro ništa.
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It's no differentdrugačiji
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Nije ništa drugačije
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than sendingslanje a texttekst.
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od slanja poruke.
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It's no differentdrugačiji than checkingprovjeravanje an emaile.
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Ne razlikuje se od provjeravanja elektronske pošte.
13:52
It's one of those things, we got by just fine before we had to do any of those.
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To je jedna od onih stvari bez koje nam je prije bilo sasvim dobro.
13:54
So it's just becomepostati anotherjoš day.
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Sada je to sasvim uobičajeno.
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I mean, when we updateAžuriraj a statusstatus messageporuka,
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Hoću reći, kad objavimo status,
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we don't really think about how long that's going to take.
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ne razmišljamo o tome koliko će nam to vremena oduzeti.
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So it's really just a matterstvar of my phonetelefon clickingklikom a couplepar of clicksklikova,
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Radi se samo o tome da nekoliko puta kliknem na telefon,
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sendposlati, and then it's doneučinio.
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pošaljem i gotovo.
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And everything'ssve je automatedautomatizirana at the other endkraj.
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Na drugoj strani je sve automatizirano.
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BGBG: On the day you are in a placemjesto where there is no coveragepokrivenost, the FBIFBI-A getsdobiva crazylud?
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BG: A kad si negdje gdje nema mreže, poludi li FBI?
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HE: Well it goeside to the last pointtočka that I was at.
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HE: Ne, pogledaju zadnju lokaciju na kojoj sam bio.
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So it holdsdrži ontona the very last pointtočka.
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Uvijek znaju zadnju lokaciju.
14:14
So if I'm on a 12-hour-sat flightlet,
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Ako sam na 12-satnom letu,
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you'llvi ćete see the last airportzračna luka that I departedpokojni from.
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vidjet ćete odakle sam zadnje poletio.
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BGBG: HasanHasan, thank you very much. (HE: Thank you.)
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BG: Hasane, najljepša hvala. (HE: Hvala vam.)
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(ApplausePljesak)
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(Pljesak)
Translated by Jelena Horvat
Reviewed by Katarina Smetko

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Hasan Elahi - Privacy artist
In 2002, American artist Hasan Elahi’s name was added (by mistake) to the US government’s watch list.

Why you should listen

That led to an intensive investigation by the FBI. After months of interrogations, Elahi was finally cleared of suspicions but advised to keep the FBI informed of his whereabouts. Which he did -- fully, by opening up just about every aspect of his life to the public. What started with a practicality grew into an open-ended art project, with Elahi posting photos of his minute-by-minute life online (hotel rooms, airports, meals, receipts, bathrooms), tracking himself on Google Maps, releasing communication records, banking transactions and transportation logs, and more. The project questions the consequences of living under constant surveillance, and it has been presented at Centre Pompidou in Paris and at the Venice Biennale, among others. He is an associate professor of Art at University of Maryland, roughly equidistant from the CIA, FBI and NSA headquarters.

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Hasan Elahi | Speaker | TED.com

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