AEC 2007: GOODBYE PRIVACY | Blogged by Sarah, Jasper and Roel

Sarah - Video Report day 5

2007-09-09T22:59:00+01:00

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Sarah - Video Report day 4

2007-09-08T22:59:00+01:00

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Sarah - Video Report day 3

2007-09-07T22:59:00+01:00

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Sarah - The new public life - Felix Stalder

2007-09-07T12:09:01+01:00

Before I started writing this article I took some time to read Felix's article about his talk in the festival catalog. It actually made me change my mind about the content of this article. Before, this article would contain sentences such as, "Felix Stalder talked about 45 minutes, but I think he could have made his point in three". I wasn't very impressed about his thoughts on our worldwide new found individuality, mainly because it's been said so many times before, and I couldn't help but feeling slightly tired about it. Felix Stalder Felix Stalder on The New Public Life, 2.0 Reading the article however made my realise that he had made a few other points which deserve to be mentioned here, and that his story was actually well funded with facts and research of others. From my perspective he made his talk at the conference more about peoples individuality and the fact that they however still can seem to collaborate successfully on projects (nothing new here, yet the Wikipedia example was brought up again. Really can't people think of no other example when we talk about web 2.0 and collaboration?), while the really interesting thing about his talk was his description of the fragmentation of the public sphere. A bit to briefly discussed (in my opinion) in his talk, but when I read about it later, I saw the real point made here.
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Roel - Control is more important than Privacy

2007-09-07T11:34:00+01:00

After Brian Holmes it's time for some social entrepeneurs, starting with a famous name in this business: Konstantin Guericke. Yesterday we talked about reclaiming souvereignity, considering the exposure to surveilled ánd observed area's, questioning if we can still consider our identity as our own. Hence today we will push it more towards publicity, we can use that to control our own identity, or can we? Konstantin Guericke Konstantin Guericke, Co-founder of LinkedIn, CEO of Jaxtr 'trying' to answer a question While working at LinkedIn, you learn methods, techniques, and manners to control your online identity. Konstantin is doing a kind of corporate talk on LinkedIn and Jaxtr, but in the end I could agree with his message. His experience at LinkedIn was a nice addition to the central theme of this symposium today, and his view on controlling not only publicity but also communications was rather interesting. We are all worried about our privacy on the web, and our personal data flying around on numerous distinct webservers; but what if we can use this in a good way? Why not try to control by yourself what is wandering around on that vast internet? Or even better, we can assure that particular information is displayed more prominently than others. Off course you already noticed that a story on LinkedIn is emerging here, but it actually works; hear me out.
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Jasper - Life After Privacy - Brian Holmes

2007-09-07T10:48:00+01:00

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Jasper - Goodbye Privacy Symposium - Day 2

2007-09-07T08:23:00+01:00

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Sarah - Video Report day 2

2007-09-06T22:59:00+01:00

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Jasper - Copyright Instead of Data Protection - Volker Grassmuck

2007-09-06T16:48:00+01:00

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Roel - Faceless - Manu Luksch

2007-09-06T15:38:00+01:00

A charming Austrian filmmaker tells us about how she used the law to create her film; a story shot using only footage from CCTV cameras. Her story is confronting us with the seamingly controlled and watched society of the United Kingdom, where I lived for five months. As a London citizen, you agree with being observed by CCTV cameras, when you set foot in public space. I knew this and I didn't really mind, but I was shocked to discover that the amount of CCTV cameras installed in the UK is about 4.2 million(!). Manu Luksch According to the UK Data Protection Act (DPA), a company or institute is obliged to provide a citizen with the captured footage of that particular person (subject) if they have that in storage. When researching on this particular way of retrieving footage, I must state that this act is quite entertaining. For example, when requested, a company should provide the subject at least with an answer within 40 days. Unfortunately, due to other privacy legislations, the provider is also obliged to anonimize the footage, before submitting such a request. So every person, every face on this footage has to be blurred out, or replaced with a black dot (actually, it is up to the providers' creativity, since he is allowed to solve this according to his own meaning). You can imagine this process is ridiculously expensive. Manu shows us a picture of a box of printed frames she received once, where apperantly the faces of others where removed with nail scissors. Manu Luksch, Austrian filmmaker displays footage she requested containing her image on surveillance tapes Think about it, someone has to dig into the video archive, find the right video this ignorant person is requesting, make a copy, anonimize it and finally sending it. The law states, that the provider is allowed to request a fee for this favour, at a maximum of 10 pounds!
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