I made a small contribution to ‘Erasing David’, a project by filmmaker David Bond. For a month David is testing the boundaries of civil liberties by deliberately destroying his identity. Is it possible to disappear from ‘the system’ anno 2009? To push this experience a little further, he has top private detectives tracking him down. Instead of digging a hole to easily go underground for a month, David seems to keep a normal life style. He contacted me via text messaging (UK mobile number) and paid for our lunch with his credit card. We met at the rooftop of the Old England art nouveau building. If David is really paranoid about privacy, using a mobile phone and credit card seem bad ways to remain digitally unnoticed…However, it would be interesting to learn if those private detectives managed to get hold of these sensitive data. How paranoid are you about your ID card? Should we be more concerned about the data it contains in the event Belgium ever drifts apart?