My Face Belongs To .Me

In Denmark, lawmakers are moving to grant likeness and image rights a legal status.
In the UK, the Online Safety Act erased the middle ground.
Here, we reclaim it.

MyFaceBelongsTo.me

Your face is not a dataset.
Your image is not a commodity.
Your body is not a tick-box for algorithms to sort:
“safe” or “pornographic.”
“approved” or “erased.”

MyFaceBelongsTo.me is not a site.
It’s a declaration. An archive. A refusal.

Born from the faceless ethos of Art of FACELESS,
it cuts down to one truth:

Owning your image is freedom.

This is where it lives:

• Essays & Manifestos → the record, the critique
• Zines & Prints → cheeky, anarchic, physical
• Faceless Loops & 3D Work → glitch intimacy, forbidden middle
• Books & Collections → The Hollow Circuit
• APP / NFT Artefacts → minted, immutable, archived

Facelessness is not absence.
It’s choice.
And choice is freedom.

My face belongs to .me

⚠️ 10 Reasons a State-Run Digital ID is a Bad Idea

1. Mission creep → Systems built “for safety” quickly expand. Today: prove your age. Tomorrow: prove your politics, health status, or opinions.
2. Temporary power, permanent systems → Governments change every few years. The ID infrastructure doesn’t. Once built, future leaders — or hostile regimes — inherit the keys.
3. Erosion of anonymity → Cash, pseudonyms, even avatars lose their power if every transaction is tied back to a centralised ID.
4. Your image = their property → In an age of AI and deepfakes, digital IDs mean handing governments (and their outsourced partners) verified scans of your face, fingerprints, and voice — raw material for surveillance and potential misuse.
5. Facial recognition + deepfake convergence → The more IDs become universal, the easier it is to build cross-platform facial tracking systems — and the harder it becomes to prove when your image or likeness has been faked.
6. Centralised control → A single database is a single point of failure. Breach, misuse, or insider corruption puts your identity at risk forever.
7. Chilling effect → If every action online/offline is traceable, people self-censor. Protest, whistleblowing, or even edgy art becomes risky.
8. Discrimination made easy → IDs allow instant filtering: who gets healthcare, jobs, travel. Once data is linked, bias becomes systematised.
9. Corporate outsourcing → Governments rarely build these systems themselves. Tech giants or contractors profit by farming biometric data, and once privatised, you can’t claw it back.
10. Irreversibility → Once embedded into banking, travel, and social services, opting out is impossible. Even if abuse becomes clear, it’s too late to dismantle