Networked Media Sampler/Based on a true story/a group
Facebook is monitoring you, but don't worry, you're boring
A FB-app in which real stories of people who find out FB monitoring or censoring contents are adapted so one's friends can become the protagonists.
When using this app the user will be able to find his/her friends being confronted with FB tactics to monitor and control its users activities
Give it a try, it doesn't really matter, you're boring
https://apps.facebook.com/youreboring
Further Work
Refine the text and name replacing engine, so that allows small variations, such as:
- Make the stories more intricate, involving data from friends
- Add sources
- In the app: Ask for people to contribute with there stories
- Add more stories
Brainstorm - Experiments
Original: Can Facebook Delete Your Account?
You're Boring Daily Highlight Featuring Amy Suo Wu: Can Facebook Delete Your Account?
Stories mock-ups
AMY can home around 11pm after a hard day spent between University and the job at the local pub. As usual turned on the computer, logged into Facebook and headed to Goldsmiths Fights Back Facebook page, to find last news on students' actions against UK's government cuts on education. AMY found it surprising that this page does not show up, even after a search it show no sign of existence. The page seemed to have simply vanished. After a couple more clicks AMY finds out the Goldsmiths Fights Back along with many other UK's political's groups have been deleted from Facebook, just prior to the Royal Wedding day.
Source: http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2011/facebook-takedowns:-burying-bad-news http://london.indymedia.org/articles/8923
A couple of days ago AMY received a Facebook notice stating that JOHN - a Facebook friend - mentioned she live in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Facebook wanted AMY to confirm if such was true. Finding it awkward that JOHN has handed out such information to Facebook AMY decided to contact JOHN, how replied that that hasn't be the case, having never mentioned AMY's living location to Facebook.
Source: http://www.jzmcbride.com/blog/2011/10/is-facebook-following-me/
AMY, a young mother struggling with her first maternity experience, joined the Facebook breastfeeding support group The Leaky B@@b. The group offers a space on Facebook where around 5,000 breastfeeding moms to ask questions and offer advice concerning breastfeeding. A week later AMY receives a message from one of her friends stating the The Leaky B@@b group did no longer exist. The group was deleted by Facebook under the claim that it had violated its Terms of Service, insinuating that breastfeeding photos posted on the group’s page were obscene.
Facebook is taking heat from human-rights advocate AMY because she claims that it deleted her account after she was vocal about Facebook being a stomping ground for pedophiles and it not doing enough to stop it. AMY is an Australian investigative journalist who is known for busting pedophile rings. She says her account disappeared six months ago after she wrote posts against Facebook and it’s leniency on pedophiles.
Source: http://www.jzmcbride.com/blog/2011/10/can-facebook-delete-your-account/
Australian technology blogger AMY found out that Facebook keeps monitoring one's browsing history even when one is logs off the social-network. AMY stated that when one sign up to Facebook it automatically puts files known as ‘cookies’ one's computer to perform this task. Following AMY's making this finding public Facebook claimed to have 'fixed' the issue - and 'thanked' AMY for pointing it out - while simultaneously claiming that it wasn't really an issue in the first place. This is still the case. But Facebook claims the cookies no longer send information while one is logged out of its site. However if one is logged into Facebook, the cookies will still send the information, and they remain on your computer unless one manually delete them.
- keywords
tracking, identity, social media, stories
- What is(are) the element(s) in the story that will be highlighted
Being tracked, not only in a hidden way, but in obvious ways. In 'FBI Demands GPS Tracker Back' and stories concerning FB the tracking of people's seem to be done in a very visible, hollywoodesc way - creating awareness that one is being controlled/watched.
- One sentence to sum up the mini project
Physical tracking and virtual tracking happening, but don't worry, you're boring
- Draft (pictures, drawings, texts, sounds, etc)
Collect stories of FB users who find they are being monitored.
Re-write condensed versions of these stories.
Create a FB-app that takes this stories and publishes them on their users wall, taking each user's friends as the characters of the stories
- Stories' Sources
AP Exclusive: CIA following Twitter, Facebook http://news.yahoo.com/ap-exclusive-cia-following-twitter-facebook-081055316.html
Caught Spying on Student, FBI Demands GPS Tracker Back http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/fbi-tracking-device/all/1
FB deletes political groups pages on occasion of the Royal Wedding http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2011/facebook-takedowns:-burying-bad-news http://london.indymedia.org/articles/8923
FB considering breastfeeding and any other material and photos related to breast health, obscene
user fooled into providing personal data
http://recently.rainweb.net/hive/1114/
“Don’t worry, you’re boring“
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/fbi-tracking-device/all/1
"A California student got a visit from the FBI this week after he found a secret GPS tracking device on his car, and a friend posted photos of it online. The post prompted wide speculation about whether the device was real, whether the young Arab-American was being targeted in a terrorism investigation and what the authorities would do.
It took just 48 hours to find out: The device was real, the student was being secretly tracked and the FBI wanted its expensive device back."
- Different Story's Perspectives
- Afifi ('victim')
- American Civil Liberties Union
- Khalend (Afifi's friend)
- Afifi's Father
- FBI
- Garage-mechanic who found the device
- Company that made the tracking device
- Kim Zetter (Wired article author)
- Former FBI agent (confirmed to Wired that it was a tracking device)
- Afifi's mother
- Afifi's Lawyer
- Afifi's Room-mate
From: Wired
"Brian Alseth from the American Civil Liberties Union in Washington state contacted Afifi after seeing pictures of the tracking device posted online and told him the ACLU had been waiting for a case like this to challenge the ruling.
“This is the kind of thing we like to throw lawyers at,” Afifi said Alseth told him.
From: TPMMuckracker In addition to talking to the media about what happened with the agents, Affifi filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for his FBI file. Affifi received a package via overnight mail on Jan. 26 — the same day that FBI agents told his counsel that they wanted to further interrogate Affifi, according to the suit.
The FBI’s file described Affifi as a “bright hardworking student, trying to support his family…[who] would be great to work for the FBI,” according to the documents he obtained in his FOIA request.
"You caught them following you"
- Giving consent, while not understanding what this will imply in the future - I can say yes or no, therefore it seems like one is choosing, making an informed choice and not being invaded
- The theater of surveillance - the show, the fear climate
