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Online Privacy: How Did We Get Here?

Documentary.net staff — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 17:35:59 +0000

As technology has evolved over the past two centuries, so have our expectations about privacy. This new digital world allows us to connect with each other with increasing ease, but it has also left our personal information readily available, and our privacy vulnerable. Cultural norms have pushed us all online, seemingly at the mercy of whatever terms of service are put before us. Cookies and tracking allow companies to collect limitless amounts of information about us, often more than we'd share with family and friends. And in the push for national security, the government has collected vast amounts of information as well, often without our knowledge. With the NSA leak reigniting this important debate, we take a closer look at the state of privacy in the digital age. Featuring: Robert Ellis Smith, Roger Williams University School of Law Helen Nissenbaum, NYU Julian Sanchez, Cato Institute

Panopticon: The documentary about your Privacy

Documentary.net staff — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:00:13 +0000

Control on our daily lives increases and privacy is disappearing. How is this exactly happening and in which way will it effect all our lives? A film about the rise of the surveillance state into your life. By Peter Vlemmix

Too Many Friends – Use of Social Media and Privacy by the People that use it

Documentary.net staff — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 06:37:41 +0000

Too Many Friends explores the use of social media by the people that use it, the people that study it, and the people that just plain stay away. Presented in a series of personal interviews, the documentary explores friendship and communication in an era where privacy is a rare commodity. Featuring interviews with: Dixie Seatle (Professor, AFTV Humber College) Collin Douma (VP Social Media, Proximity BBDO) Don Jones (President, Exper!ence It) Mairin Piccinin (Friend) Created by Teresa Marie-Boehm, Will Bowes, Diana Galligan, Jamie Manning and Mike O'Doherty

What Facebook knows about you

Documentary.net staff — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:05:42 +0000

A couple of months ago the Austrian law student Max Schrems asked facebook to send him all their data stored about him. All Europeans have a right to do this, because facebook is based in Dublin, Ireland. It took a while and then facebook sent Max a CD with 1222 PDF files. A visualization of the data by taz.de Schrems was surprised how much the social network knows about him and his friends. And how much it remembers. In theory, people at facebook could read all of his facebook messages. And find out what he has written on criminal law. The content of these messages might interest advertisers who place customised adverts. Customised advertising probably earnt facebook around two billion dollars in 2011. What Schrems writes to his friends might also one day interest the police - or hackers. facebook keeps the messages even after Max has deleted them, deep down in its servers. And facebook knows exactly when Schrems writes messages. And it remembers when Schrems logs on. So even weeks later it can be established precisely at what time Max used facebook. facebook also sent a CD with data to Schrems' friend Lisa. It knows much more about her because Lisa has taken photos with her i-phone. With GPS coordinates, the data can be used to work out exactly where she was. With biometric facial recognition, which Mark has introduced to facebook, it is possible to know about millions of people exactly who was where when. Read more at taz.de

Escape the Web: Every click online thralls Privacy

Documentary.net staff — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:31:22 +0000

Every day we use mobile phones. Computers became part of our life. Some people even can't live without those devices. It's fashionable now to have an account on Facebook or on some other social sites. We provide our personal data online never thinking about probable consequences.

Steal This Film – Part II (HD, 720p)

Documentary.net staff — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:20:20 +0000

Steal This Film is a film series documenting the movement against intellectual property. Part 2 draws parallels between the impact of the printing press and the internet in terms of making information accessible beyond a privileged group or "controllers". The argument is made that the decentralised nature of the internet makes the enforcement of conventional copyright impossible. Adding to this the internet turns consumers into producers, by way of user generated content, leading to the sharing, mashup and creation of content not motivated by financial gains. This has fundamental implications for market-based media companies. The documentary asks "How will society change" and states "This is the Future - And it has nothing to do with your bank balance". Subtitles available: English, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Danish, French, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Korean Download HD Torrent

Tagged: Privacy as a Commodity

Documentary.net staff — Mon, 09 May 2011 11:46:06 +0000

Privacy as a commodity: civil liberties experts discuss the implications of implanting Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips in humans. Tagged is a short documentary that introduces us to the debate over RFID chips, touted as a tool with invaluable medical applications by its supporters and denounced as the death knell for civil liberties by privacy advocates. Do you like to be tagged and tracked? Post your opinion!