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TED TALK: How we take back the internet | Edward Snowden

https://www.ted.com/talks/edward_snowden_here_s_how_we_take_back_the_internet

Appearing by telepresence robot, Edward Snowden speaks at TED2014 about surveillance and Internet freedom. The right to data privacy, he suggests, is not a partisan issue, but requires a fundamental rethink of the role of the internet in our lives — and the laws that protect it. "Your rights matter," he says, "because you never know when you're going to need them." Chris Anderson interviews, with special guest Tim Berners-Lee.

In this TED talk/interview Snowden talks about out right to data privacy and stresses how we should rethink how the internet can affect our society. He discusses the ‘nothing to hide’ idea and explains why that is incorrect by explaining that you should care about your privacy because you never know when you will need it.

Snowden also discusses some of the leaked documents from the NSA in detail, as well as his reasons for leaking the information.

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Data Selfie is a browser extension that tracks you while you are on Facebook to show you your own data traces and reveal what machine learning algorithms could predict about your personality based on that data.

The tool explores our relationship to the online data we leave behind as a result of media consumption and social networks - the information you share consciously and unconsciously.

This website/tool is an interesting concept to explore and explain how much out data can reveal about us. This therefore helps to understand why it is so important to protect our data.

Visuals

I really like visuals used to create this tool. It is all text based and even the visualisations are created using text. This all work due to using a monospaced typeface as seen previously. The colours and style also link to the iconography of coding and a computer terminal, very suitable visuals for a topic about data.

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Internal Envelope / String Fasten Envelope

Envelopes fastened with string are often used internally in businesses to spread paper-work to multiple people.

I think the idea that this kind of envelop holds information that is private within a company could be used within the packaging of my booklets to convey the idea of privacy.

Also the fact that you have to physically untie the envelope conveys a sense of breaking into the information, which also links to the topic of privacy.

Butterfly pins could be used to create my own loops (along with card circles) for the strong to fasten to.

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Today is the world wide web’s 28th birthday. Here’s a message from our founder and web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee on how the web has evolved, and what we

Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, highlights 3 important challenges for the web and how we can continue developing the web into a core element of our society. The 3 problems he discusses are about privacy, misinformation and political transparency. These topics strongly support my publication.

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This opinion piece, written by our Founder and web inventor, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, was originally published in the Wall Street Journal. As the battl

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web. Discusses why Net Neutrality is important and why is fundamental to what the internet is and how it came to be.

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ForEveryone.net connects the future of the web with the little-known story of its birth. In 1989, 33-year-old computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee invented th...

FOREVERYONE.NET

'FOREVERYONE.NET connects the future of the web with the little-known story of its birth. In 1989, 33-year-old computer programmer tim berners-lee invented the world wide web and his visionary decision to make it a free and accessible resource sparked a global revolution in communication. Tim has declared internet access a human right and has called for an “online magna carta” to protect privacy and free speech, extend connectivity to populations without access and maintain “one web” for all. Tim’s dramatic story poses the question: will we fight for the web we want or let it be taken away?’

Informative and inspiring documentary. This documentary are everything Sir Tim Berners-Lee stood for is very inspiring and make me want to do my part to raise awareness to save the web.

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A scientific research paper analysing panopticism in out modern world and in a work environment.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four, the novel of George Orwell - Part I

It’s worrying how many links you can make between George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and our society today.

Glenn Greenwald who was strongly involved with Snowden leaking documents and continues to report on the topic says in his book No Place To Hide - Edward Snowden the NSA and the Surveillance State:

“Invoking George Orwell’s 1984 is something of a cliché, but the echoes of the world about which he warned in the NSA’s surveillance state are unmistakable: both rely on the existence of a technological system with the capacity to monitor every citizen’s actions and words. The similarity is denied by the surveillance champions—we’re not always being watched, they say—but that argument misses the point. In 1984, citizens were not necessarily monitored at all times; in fact, they had no idea whether they were ever actually being monitored. But the state had the capability to watch them at any time. It was the uncertainty and possibility of ubiquitous surveillance that served to keep everyone in line.”

This idea strongly links to the idea of the PANOPTICON and the topics in which I discuss about privacy in my publication. Therefore I think Nineteen Eighty-Four would be an interesting source to include with my publication.

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Website containing EYE - ASCII ART and much more. Enjoy our collection of ASCII ART, ASCII Tables and other interactive tools. The place for all things textual.

Looking at more examples of ASCII art. An eye is often used as a piece of iconography when related to topics of privacy.

Could be an idea to create my own eye in ASCII art form.

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A research about networks and publications.

This publication investigates ‘the process of mutual influence that new media have over older media (and vice-versa) through the creation of a hypermediated zine that discusses contemporary subjects such as surveillance, information overload, life-editing and copy.’

I like idea here of using tracing paper to protay messages and infomation being hidden or blurred. It can also be used as the idea of loss of privacy as you can see through layers, see whats underneath.

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Datum

http://fromsquare.com/portfolio/datum/

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Miniature test to see how an 8 fold publication/poster would look.

With the proportions of my publication the create poster size is quite wide.

Plus it would mean multiple 8 folds to print the whole publication as a 16 fold is too fragile.

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This project is both useful as visual and information research. It is all based on the topic of mass surveillance and ensuring that power is not abused.

I like the filter that has been applied over the images to make it seem constructed of low-res pixels. The imagery itself is quite surreal, representing the worrying nature of the topic.

It's full of great animated infographics and table of information. It also used a monospace typeface which characteristics of OCR B and Hack for example. This is a great way using technology based iconography.

This website also discusses how the NSA and surveillance is portrayed in the media and how the media can be used to cover up what the government is doing.

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A small creative group which works in the spirit of slow design.

Like the use of colour to hightlight important parts of text.

Reminds me of highlighting text on a computer - Technology Iconography.

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