Are you worry about your internet personal information safety

Radio Documentary Proposal

Working Title: Are You Worry about Your Internet Personal Information Safety?
Suggested outlet: BBC Radio Four

Story Background

Internet data and privacy protection is always a major concern among the ever-increasing web surfers.

Along more and more web users are building their social networking web page, such as Facebook, MySpace, they continuously put personal information and ID on the web.

Thousands of web browsers can see and search other people’s information. In such a circumstances, no wonder cyber crimes are taking place dramatically due to the technology development.

Very recently, a digital advertising technology company Phorm powered a web device – webwise, cooperates with the leading UK Internet Service Providers (ISP), such as BT, Talktalk, to provide customers identifiable and personalised ad during their web surfing.

They guarantee that the ad displayed on the web will be more suitable and matchable for individual user. It can be achieved through ISP’s tracking system, which tracks individual’s every surfing action.

The debate raised by several campaign groups, such as the Open Rights Group, Anti-Phorm, Dephorm, they put webwise into a big question.

Does webwise comply data protection act? How should customers trust Phorm and ISP’s webwise that don’t interfere our customer’s privacy rights? Is it legal for these ISP providers to sell customer’s information to ad companies? To what extend the campaign group could assist customers to seek legitimate rights?
On the other hand, facing such a embarrassed circumstance, what are Phorm and its ISP partners’ opinion about their products – webwise.

What’s the opinion within academic world? What’s the expert’s thought regarding webwise phenomenon?

From the legal advices agencies, such as agencies like Own-It, find out what are the most popular questions that customers always seek for assistance, regarding Internet privacy rights, how the agency assist customers to solve the problems?

What are common people’s ideas regarding their online privacy? Are they regular visitors of Facebook? What are their attitudes towards social networking websites?

From the Government side -- information Commissioner’s office, does webwise comply data protection law? Does the company’s webwise meet the UK requested Internet privacy standard?

Aim

To explore the UK citizens’ online privacy rights, and how the issues influence local British, what are the controversial opinions from different sectors, how to improve and protect citizens’ online privacy rights?

Interviewees Resources

Ø Phorm: London based company.
Ø Open right group: London based campaign group.
Ø Senior Lecturer. Andrew D Muarry, LSE based Internet law expertise
Ø Senior Lecturer. David Dunkley Dyimah, Westminster based web creator expertise
Ø Own-It: London based legal advice org, the delivery partner is London College of Communication, part of the University of Arts London.
Ø Voxpops: web browsers/social networking websites users.
Ø ICO: Non-London based governement body, access isn’t that realistic.

Actuality

Ø Type the keyboard, when people social networking online.
Ø Voxpops actuality.
Ø Digital music for bringing the technological atmosphere

Reference Sources

Web creator rejects net tracking
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7299875.stm

Phorm's internet-tracking service is 'illegal'
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3576567.ece

ISPs signs up to targeted ads deal
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/14/bt.virginmedia

Open right group question Phorm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7291637.stm

Open right group
http://www.openrightsgroup.org/

Phorm
http://www.phorm.com/

Andrew Murray’s research page
http://www.itlawweb.co.uk/

Own-It
http://www.own-it.org/aboutus/

ICO
http://www.ico.gov.uk/about_us.aspx

Radio Documentary Pitch with Jean Whyatt

Radio documentary is normally an issue based seriously radio programme. Uni. Westerminster MA Broadcast Journalism students did one intensive "Story Pitch" day with Jean Whyatt, an experienced broadcaster who had worked mainly for BBC Radio 4.

The whole day started from 10a.m. until 4p.m., Students all feel quite helpful with such a discussion practice.

Since Jean guide students to discuss a variety of treatment towards making radio documentary, as well as some tips of programme making.

A range of ideas with different treatment

Most of the students have very good ideas, such as bully, not only consider about the childhood bully, but more focus on adulthood bully.

Regarding the different treatments, such as utilizing movies dealing with bulling, dramatizing documentary etc.

Jean provides suggestions to student, for instance, better focus on one particular kind of bully rather than spreading into many different kinds, like hook the story into a particular angle.

The story about obesity, the interesting treatment could be the cooking noise as the background; when obese children are sporting, might record his/her heavy breath.

Like the Chinese story, Chinese students who're studying abroad, what's their situation of finding jobs in the foreign countries?

In this case, the treatment could be the Chinese language fade in first, then fade out sensitively as the background voice, afterwards fade in the English voice over.

Cemetery near Bethnal Green is also a controversial story, the argument is about the business value of the land field, why should us provide the land for the death, since our living space is already crowded.

The story guided a range of discussion, such as talking about the Tibetan's sky funeral, even gain a working title as: the world of death!

Tips and techniques of making radio programmes

Other techniques Jean has mentioned, such as montage technique, cross fading, etc.

She is mentioning that montage is quite similar as vox pops, just not like "vox pops" are a number of people talking about the same topic.

Montage techniques are the different people appeared dealing with various thing, even some of the elements are music etc. A bit like the radio feature: the age of innocence.

Regarding interviewing the political figures, better avoid going through the bureaucracy, drop a letter directly to the official's personal/diary secretary, it even works more.

When proposing the story to production company, just telling enough of the story, but don't detail the contacting detail.

Since need to avoid the story to be stole by the company, they can just arrange a crew to do the story, if they can get the access as you provided.