Somehow I can't reach the etherpad now, but since I promised to post it here anyway, this is a link to the project I mentioned yesterday during the #permacomputing conversation:
research.radical-openness.org/…

As part of the Research Lab 2015 leading to AMRO 2016 (not 2018), in a project initiated by @kairus , artists were given harddrives retrieved from Agbogbloshie, Ghana, the largest e-waste dump in the world, and invited to explore how much data they could resurface to use in art projects. The artists were actually surprised by how much data they were able to recover, leading to ethical questions about the use of personal data without the knowledge or consent of people who believed that data had been destroyed.