1. Read/skim through this NYTimes piece about privacy with regard to social media:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/magazine/25privacy-t2.html?ref=magazine
2.Bring in video elements that you've shot with the intent of editing together into a short piece (30-90 seconds final duration). Should be more than one clip but no more than half a dozen. You'll actively work with that content in class on Thursday.
I never had privacy on the web directly affect me until last weekend. A group of my boyfriends friends (without my boyfriend's knowledge) made t-shirts for an event with MY face on them. It was a picture taken from facebook. I am not doing anything bad (it is just me smiling) but I was unaware this was happening and did not give my consent. They were made for an event I wasn't even attending and they were made as a joke. I didn't think it was funny at all! Even though only 20 or so were made, some of the people wearing them are people I don't know. I don't like thinking that people are wearing my face around. Needless to say I blocked every one of them from my facebook account. It gave me a real perspective of how I am allowing people access to my personal photos/thoughts/activites. I felt betrayed that I could not even trust "friends" to use my facebook account correctly. Honestly, it made me want to deactivate it all together.
ReplyDeleteEgads -- I'm sorry this happened.
ReplyDeleteAt least your face hasn't appeared on a CD cover (yet) like this gal.
I'm not sure where I first read about this (was it in that article?), but here's a recent revelation:
ReplyDelete100 Million Facebook Profile Pages Leaked to Torrent Site:
http://gizmodo.com/5598825/100-million-facebook-profile-pages-leaked-to-torrent-site
The data harvested were from public profiles, which assumes that people purposely opened up their profiles for everyone to view. Now major corporations are apparently downloading the torrent with all the "public" info. http://gizmodo.com/5599970/
And for fun, you can see what info is available openly on Facebook. Here I've pre-searched "hate my boss" for you:
http://openfacebooksearch.com/?q=%22hate+my+boss%22