Before talking about Privacy, one of the Media lecturers, Paul had mentioned about things we have to be noticed when being a media operator, ‘Be Cool, but not just a Tool’. The most remarkable part for me would be the ‘Release form’, including the Individual, Location and even the Performance one, that I hadn’t been in touch with during the 2 years of Multimedia study (even when having interviews, the difference between the system I think). A form, that could keep us and our team out of the risk of facing a lawsuit, that looks extremely important if we had entered the workplace, a ‘real’ situation of media production.
Next would be another significant part of pre-production preparation, arriving the location more than an hour before where you are going to film at, or around 3 hours if you afraid that you may forget to bring something important, for equipment set up purpose, and have enough time to deal with technical problems if it had occurred unfortunately. Also, a rule about safety that different from Hong Kong, about toy guns. In my place, if you are filming your assignment with toy guns at the staircase or even an alley with less pedestrian passing through, there wasn’t a specific rule that we have to get shooting permission by anyone; however, in Melbourne, there’s a need for us to warn all the stakeholders and notice our tutors if we want to include weapons when filming.
The second part of this week’s lecture would be a video about Internet Pravicy released by the BBC in 2010, The Virtual Revolution: The Cost of Free, discussing how our information would be collected while having Internet activities, through interviewing CEOs of different companies that play an important part at the virtual world, including Amazon, Google and YouTube. Starting from years that the Internet was becoming a trend, surfing websites, or streaming videos seem to be an activity that totally free to use, but actually, we had ‘paid’ our history of web browsing, our searching habits to our Internet providers, and the website themselves, for providing us better experiences, Ads we may interested in by analyzing what we had done through the World Wide Web. Truly, I admit that they have the right of collecting data on us while we are using them, but in terms of protecting the little privacies that we had left behind, they have to set a standard of what they are going to collect (for enhancing our ‘experience’), such as, when we are googling some private issues by using the Incognito Mode.
This video had also reminded me a film called Snowden, a biographical one that talks about the famous person who had revealed the US government was kept monitoring citizens Internet activities by using a program called PRISM, told us that what we have done on the Internet could always be traced or even being surveillance, that we have to be careful and pay attention on what we did by our computer everyday.
Cr. Snowdenfilm.com
Privacy: Why Do Youth Share so Publicly?
Besides privacy on browsing, the reading this week had disclosed the phenomenon about how teenagers, we, maintains our privacy when using social platforms, and the ‘war’ between teens and their guardian on their own social privacy, that some parents thought that kept watching them when surfing websites, using Facebook, chatting with their friends is counted as a kind of parental responsibility. That had forced their kids to start using some Steganography method for defending them, for instance, using pronouns rather than mentioning specific person, and using song lyrics to express their pessimistic feelings.
Another notable part for me would be the Public-by-Default, the default setting of social platforms (e.g. Facebook) that we might often easier to be ignored, that the platform we are using for everyday communication may controlling our Internet privacy inadvertently, encouraging us to share things instead of setting them to private, letting us believe that sharing our biological information is the first step of entering the social world, tend to be a normal act if we didn’t notice that what we are sharing could easily be browsed by everyone, including being treated as a kind of resume when applying jobs.
Regarding my personal experience, I would tend to share things that’s not that ‘private’ for me to the publics, like my favorite songs, TV programme, or my religious status that won’t be harmful to me even the seniority had discovered them. As well as, I would seldom share my daily life and feeling toward the public or so called ‘Friends’ on social platforms, I guess the degree of sharing could be considered as a personality driven acts, in the other word, reserved person (like me?) seems would like to share interesting things we have seen, to our close friends rather than the Facebook Wall or Instagram Story. Social platform tools, for me, is a place to share some of my momentous moments, or things that I’m really appreciating (e.g. Fashionable designs)
In addition, to be aware of, sometimes I would like to ‘check’ my publicity on the World Wide Web, by googling my email address, commonly used username and passwords, to ‘monitor’ what others could be found that related to my own privacy, warning me that how dangerous and powerful the consequences of leaking our own information on the Internet could be, another way of maintaining my own privacy, isn’t it?