Strand Magazine February 2020

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HALIM KIM R

[email protected] MUSIC
DESIGN/LAYOUT HEAD AMIKA MOSER
MORGAN BAKINOWSKI [email protected]
THEATRE
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GODELIEVE DE BREE KATHARINE TROJAK
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HEAD OF DIGITAL MOLLY BONIFACE
ALEXIA MCDONALD [email protected]
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HELEN SOULSBY
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NADYA OPPENHEIM EVENTS COORDINATOR
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ISSABELLA ORLANDO GRANTS AND FUNDING OFFICER
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FASHION MARKETING
LIZA MIKHALEVA FRANCES MCNAB
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SOCIAL MEDIA
FILM GRACE VICKERS DESIGN TEAM:
ANDRIANI SCORDELLIS
MONICA MAO
ELOISE WRIGHT EMMA CASTELBOLOGNESI
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FOOD & DRINK CHARLEE-JANE KIESER
AISTE BAKUTYTE
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not. Political actors now rely heavily on data a self-professed whistleblower of the activities
to decide where to host rallies or conferences, of the US National Security Agency, the film
how to tailor advertisements to influence our showcases his work for the NSA, which led him
political opinion and which constituencies to to release top-secret government documents
target throughout the campaign. in 2012 revealing previously unknown details of
global surveillance. Eight years later, technology
The 2016 presidential election of Donald has made leaps and bounds since 2012, with
Trump and the Brexit referendum were two worrying prospects.
political campaigns flawed by data misuse
and exploitation. As popularised by the Netflix But before you want to delete all your social media
documentary The Great Hack, which tells the and throw your phone into the river Thames,
story of Cambridge Analytica, and its exposé by here are a few reality checks. Sometimes this
British investigative journalist, Carole Cadwalladr, data can be helpful for academics and research
which has sparked increased dialogue about process, which will become valuable for future
how our data information can be used against historians and data analysts to learn about
us. The data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica, humanity. More recently, there have been
who worked with Trump’s election team and the attempts to reform the internet. Tim Berners-
winning UK Leave campaign, subjected millions Lee, who created the World Wide Web over thirty
of voters’ Facebook profiles to clickbait and years ago, which has since expanded more
false advertising to influence voter choice and than he had ever fathomed, officially launched
predict ballot box results. Since questions have the ‘contract for the web’ in November 2019,
been raised asking whether Facebook and Mark to tackle the ‘unacceptable costs’ that have
Zuckerberg should accept responsibility for come from the evolution of the web. Perhaps
these breaches of data and there have been these attempts to reform the web suggest
calls for these Silicon Valley firms to ensure progress and hopefully more transparency from
its users’ privacy from external corporations. corporations and governments in the long run.
Perhaps the Silicon Valley firms are the ones we However, it seems we have gone beyond the
should be protecting ourselves from the most. tipping point in terms of how our internet usage
facilitates the hoarding of our data, revealing
Is it true our phones or computers are listening our online behaviour, personality and political
to us and watching us, or do they just know us views.
well enough to predict what we are thinking?
When we quickly consent to ‘cookies’, thinking sSchaorueldd? Prowbeably.be
it will make our browsing experience faster, this
gives access to companies such as Google and Despite recent works of investigative journalism,
Facebook to monitor you surfing the web, by renewed privacy policies and reform attempts,
depositing a code into your browser. The most we still have little idea of who has got our data
threatening is the ‘supercookies’, which are and where. Millennials and Z’s are currently the
almost impossible to remove from your browser most vulnerable generations of all, as we have
and have been subject to controversy for grown up relying on the internet. Our online
corporations such as Verizon, who were fined data has been collected for the majority of our
$1.35 million in 2016 by the US FCC. Those of us lives, whether that’s through your early days
using our mobiles for daily navigation, ordering of MySpace or MSN live chat, or your first ever
food and online shopping are more likely to Facebook status: ‘oMg, mum FiNnaLly let me
see tailored content online, as our identities get facebook XD’. The timeline of your personal
become transparent when we become reliant life remains susceptible to exploitation, in
on our phones. comparison to older generations, who have only
recently started using social media, or perhaps
Another current buzzword, along with ‘big don’t use it at all. All we can do for now is remain
data’, is surveillance. People who cover up the cautious and always question what you see
lens on their computer desktop camera have online.
surely read a few conspiracy theories, are
aware of the stories surrounding celebrities’ Written by Ellie Muir
webcams being hacked, or have seen the film Edited by Isabella Orlando and Isabel Veninga
Snowden (2016). Based on Edward Snowden,

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