Our Intervention
In this post I am going to write up the notes I made from our group meet-up earlier in the week. everyone has been independently thinking/reading/writing about privacy in the present day. From our very first discussion in the workshop hours last week it was clear how enormous this topic is and how important it would be to really focus our ideas into something achievable in a short space of time.
The discussion began with suggestions of posters and leaflets that could be posted around Goldsmiths and the New Cross area, to generate awareness among people about how little attention is being paid to the fact that nothing is really private online anymore, and the problems of mindlessly clicking that we have read the "Ts & Cs". But the more we planned this idea, and the more we developed out topic, the less impactful this idea felt.
After swapping notes, news articles and watching clips on youtube, we decided to focus our political energy even more into specifically the issues of privacy on global sites Instagram and Facebook. This is of particular relevance in light of the recent broadening of Facebook's social media monopoly to include ownership of Instagram as well as WhatsApp and other platforms.
Towards the end of the planning session, we came to the decision that it would be a much stronger intervention, and mode of activism making the trip to Instagram's European headquarters in central London. We have made the plan to do this tomorrow evening before our presentation Friday, and will present our experience to the class. The intervention will include holding banners outside the building protesting the LACK of personal privacy in the new privacy policy (assessed in a pervious post by Antonia and I!) and speaking to members of the public about whether they are comfortable with the Ts & Cs they consented to when confronted with the real information.
I can't wait!
The discussion began with suggestions of posters and leaflets that could be posted around Goldsmiths and the New Cross area, to generate awareness among people about how little attention is being paid to the fact that nothing is really private online anymore, and the problems of mindlessly clicking that we have read the "Ts & Cs". But the more we planned this idea, and the more we developed out topic, the less impactful this idea felt.
After swapping notes, news articles and watching clips on youtube, we decided to focus our political energy even more into specifically the issues of privacy on global sites Instagram and Facebook. This is of particular relevance in light of the recent broadening of Facebook's social media monopoly to include ownership of Instagram as well as WhatsApp and other platforms.
Towards the end of the planning session, we came to the decision that it would be a much stronger intervention, and mode of activism making the trip to Instagram's European headquarters in central London. We have made the plan to do this tomorrow evening before our presentation Friday, and will present our experience to the class. The intervention will include holding banners outside the building protesting the LACK of personal privacy in the new privacy policy (assessed in a pervious post by Antonia and I!) and speaking to members of the public about whether they are comfortable with the Ts & Cs they consented to when confronted with the real information.
I can't wait!
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