Networked Media Sampler/Based on a true story/a group

Facebook is monitoring you, but don't worry, you're boring

• Source:

Caught Spying on Student, FBI Demands GPS Tracker Back http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/fbi-tracking-device/all/1

Google Is Determined to Crack the Social Code http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/technology/18google.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

AP Exclusive: CIA following Twitter, Facebook http://news.yahoo.com/ap-exclusive-cia-following-twitter-facebook-081055316.html

• 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

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

FB tracking browsing activity

fb deleting account of user who expressed criticism against FB not doing enough to prevent pedophiles from operate on the network

user fooled into providing personal data

http://recently.rainweb.net/hive/1114/

• Stories retold

FB deletes political groups pages on occasion of the Royal Wedding

AMY can home after 11pm after a hard day spent between her MA-program and her job at the local pub. She sat at her desk, turned on her 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 finds it surprising that this page does not show up, and even after a search it show no sign of existence. The page seemed to have simply vanished. HOW COME? JUST LIKE THAT? BUFF? After a quick search AMY finds out that Goldsmiths Fights Back along with many other UK's political's groups have been deleted from facebook, just prior to the Royal Wedding has taken place.

Source: http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2011/facebook-takedowns:-burying-bad-news http://london.indymedia.org/articles/8923

“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."

source

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