Podcast appearances and mentions of brett gaylor

Is it realistic to protect any of the data we share on the internet? Can any company or state promise us privacy? And how can we work to help each other share and consume all of that data conscientiously?Today we're joined by Brett Gaylor, a Canadian interactive filmmaker producing documentaries about data, privacy and their real human impact. Brett is already a major figure in the documentary community: he received the International Documentary Association Award for best series, The Prix Gemeaux for Best Interactive Series, three Webby Awards and a Peabody Award. And yet he's quick to call himself an imposter!We spoke with Brett about identity, from the impression of being an imposter to the power of the pandemic to change our perception life, both online and offline. We discussed opinionated producers, informed consent and much more, as always… We even had a special guest appearance from Google's voice assistant!This show is created by Storm, a podcast production studio, and Anon, a creative anonymous conscious social network. Check it out at https://anonym.network  and download the app to explore the bright side of anonymity.If you want to dive deep into the world of anonymity & data privacy, subscribe to “Who's That?” wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts. More episodes are already on their way!

Mit Google den Staubsauger oder mit dem Handy das Licht steuern. Immer mehr Gegenstände sind über das Internet miteinander vernetzt und erleichtern unseren Alltag. Doch dieser Komfort hat einen Preis: persönliche Daten. «Einstein» über das Internet der Dinge und wie es uns durchleuchtet. Bei der Recherche sind wir auf den Dokumentarfilm des kanadischen Filmemachers und Digitalisierungsexperten Brett Gaylor gestossen. In seinem Film «The Internet of Everything» beleuchtet er was geschieht, wenn die Menschen sich für den Komfort «smarter» Gegenstände und Apps entscheiden, sich aber der Folgen nicht bewusst sind. Denn das Internet ist heutzutage überall. Welche Folgen hat diese «Internet-Abhängigkeit» auf die Gesellschaft? Brett Gaylor fragt sich auf seiner Recherche-Reise ob es in Ordnung ist, Menschen und ihre persönlichen Daten zu (be)nutzen. Oder wäre es nötig, jetzt die Reissleine zu ziehen, und doch mehr «Offline» durchs Leben zu gehen? «Einstein»-Moderator Tobias Müller hat mit dem Dokumentarfilmer Brett Gaylor über diese Themen gesprochen.

Mit Google den Staubsauger oder mit dem Handy das Licht steuern. Immer mehr Gegenstände sind über das Internet miteinander vernetzt und erleichtern unseren Alltag. Doch dieser Komfort hat einen Preis: persönliche Daten. «Einstein» über das Internet der Dinge und wie es uns durchleuchtet. Bei der Recherche sind wir auf den Dokumentarfilm des kanadischen Filmemachers und Digitalisierungsexperten Brett Gaylor gestossen. In seinem Film «The Internet of Everything» beleuchtet er was geschieht, wenn die Menschen sich für den Komfort «smarter» Gegenstände und Apps entscheiden, sich aber der Folgen nicht bewusst sind. Denn das Internet ist heutzutage überall. Welche Folgen hat diese «Internet-Abhängigkeit» auf die Gesellschaft? Brett Gaylor fragt sich auf seiner Recherche-Reise ob es in Ordnung ist, Menschen und ihre persönlichen Daten zu (be)nutzen. Oder wäre es nötig, jetzt die Reissleine zu ziehen, und doch mehr «Offline» durchs Leben zu gehen? «Einstein»-Moderator Tobias Müller hat mit dem Dokumentarfilmer Brett Gaylor über diese Themen gesprochen.

Brett Gaylor and Face2Face host David Peck talk about his new film Discriminator, serendipitous creativity, privacy laws, facial recognition, digital ethics and human rights, data sets, remix culture, surveillance technology and automated decision making.TrailerWATCH the film here.Find out more about Brett and his work here.Synopsis:Discriminator, Brett Gaylor's latest cautionary tale about life online, looks at the sea of faces we've willingly uploaded to social media and the consequences of our oversharing.As the Internet has evolved, so has documentarian Brett Gaylor's attitude towards it. The filmmaker, who imagined a utopian future of shared creativity in 2008's hit documentary feature RIP: A Remix Manifesto, began to sound the alarm in 2015 with his Peabody award winning series on digital privacy Do Not Track. Last year's CBC documentary The Internet of Everything explored the implications of the Internet moving off of our screens and into the world around us with the Internet of Things.And in his latest film, the interactive documentary Discriminator, he looks at the vast global database of faces – captured without consent on social media and other platforms – and how it's being used to hone facial recognition and other advances in artificial intelligence.Discriminator traces the almost accidental amassing of photos on digital sites through the beginning of this century, and follows through to the realization in 2015 by Yahoo/Flickr that this archive had limitless possibilities no one could have imagined. The subsequent cloning of these databases has been used to build technology used by US defence contractors, the Chinese military and the largest corporations on earth.In this interactive documentary, viewers can see how this technology works by activating their own webcams. While this may sound creepy, the film manages to stay away from fear-mongering territory with AI-assisted animation, interactive AR filters, a glitchy original score and Gaylor's familiar voiceover. It's the most fun you will have exploring surveillance capitalism.“We need to move beyond narratives around AI that are scary and grant the technology it's own human agency,” says Gaylor, whose own wedding images play a role in his digital supply chain analysis. “What we need to understand is that these are technologies that we can shape, and that we are alive during a moment where we can set the course “People's faces are being used for purposes over which they have no control. We need to have consent over our digital bodies - we need to make permission normal again.”About Brett:Brett's documentaries The Internet of Everything, Do Not Track, OK Google, and Rip! A Remix Manifesto chronicled the Internet's peril and promise. His AR documentary Fortune premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.Brett has received the International Documentary Association award, a Peabody Award, the Prix Gemaux and three Webbys.Image Copyright and Credit: Brett Gaylor and Imposter media.F2F Music and Image Copyright: David Peck and Face2Face. Used with permission.For more information about David Peck's podcasting, writing and public speaking please visit his site here.With thanks to Josh Snethlage and Mixed Media Sound. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

If you are worried about oversharing online, check out the new documentary, Discriminator, as we chat with the director Brett Gaylor. Plus, CEO of Zebra, Dennis Gecaj, reveals the app where users share "talking photos" with friends. Also, CEO of Loop Returns, Jonathan Poma, joins us to discuss solving the problem of returns when shopping online. In Socially Speaking, we talk about Instagram's change to hiding sensitive content and the option to remove the feature if you don't want Instagram to censor what you see.   Find out more information from our guests here: Brett Gaylor: discriminator.film Dennis Gecaj: zebra.chat Jonathan Poma: loopreturns.com You can also find both AmberMac and Michael B on Twitter.

Tracey Deer and Face2Face host David Peck talk about her new film Beans, bridges under construction, storytelling and changing the world, persistence, forgiveness, how anger can guide us for good, listening well and why trauma doesn't need to define us.TrailerFind out more about the film here and Tracey here.Synopsis:Beans is a coming-of-age story, inspired by co-writer/director Tracey Deer's own experience as a 12-year-old Mohawk girl who had to grow up fast during the 1990 Oka Crisis, a 78-day armed stand-off between the Quebec/Canadian governments and the Mohawk who were peacefully protesting a golf course expansion that would desecrate their burial ground.Since debuting at TIFF 2020, the film has reaped many accolades – among them, Berlin's Generation Kplus Crystal Bear for best film, two CSAs (Best Motion Picture and Best First Feature), TIFF Emerging Talent Award (Deer), TIFF Rising Stars (actor Rainbow Dickerson), TIFF's Canada Top Ten, VIFF's Best Canadian Film, VFCC's One to Watch (actor Kiawentiio), DGC Discovery Award, and WGC Screenwriting Award for feature film.Beans (Kiawentiio) lives with her caring parents (Rainbow Dickerson and Joel Montgrand) and her little sister (Violah Beauvais) on the Mohawk reserve of Kahnawà:ke, Quebec, where the two girls happily play in the woods. Unprepared for the racism and violence that the Oka Crisis brings, Beans decides to transform into her own kind of warrior. “I was Beans,” says Deer. Using 200 local extras and partially shot in Kahnawà:ke (where Deer grew up) and nearby Kanesatake (where the protest began), the film is a Canadian production. Its female crew includes Deer, producer Anne-Marie Gélinas, executive producers Justine Whyte and Meredith Vuchnich (also co-writer), cinematographer Marie Davignon and editor Sophie Farkas-Bolla. Note: At age 13, Kiawentiio composed and performed the song for the end credits.About Tracey:Filmmaker Tracey Deer is a Mohawk filmmaker with multiple credits to her name, as a producer, writer and director. She currently resides in Kahnawake, her home reserve in Quebec.Deer began her professional career with CanWest Broadcasting in Montreal, and later joined Rezolution Pictures to co-direct One More River: The Deal that Split the Cree, with Neil Diamond (Cree), which won the Best Documentary Award at the 2005 Rendez-vous du cinema québécois in Montreal and was nominated for Best Social/Political Documentary at the Geminis.Deer formed Mohawk Princess Pictures in 2006, which produced her first short fiction called Escape Hatch, a dramedy about the romantic misadventures of a Mohawk woman on her quest for love. She also wrote, directed and filmed Mohawk Girls, about the lives of three teenagers, and herself as a teen, growing up in Kahnawake, which won the Alanis Obomsawin Best Documentary Award at the 2005 imagineNATIVE Film & Media Arts Festival.Currently, she has multiple projects in development, including a 3D feature documentary and a fiction feature screenplay.Tracey received a B.A. in film studies from Dartmouth College in 2000, graduating with two awards for excellence. In 2009, she shared the Don Haig Award with colleague Brett Gaylor for overall career achievement as an emerging filmmaker. In 2008, Playback Magazine declared her one of the 25 rising stars in the Canadian entertainment industry. She is also a member of The Writer's Guild of Canada."Tracey represents the next wave of native filmmaking," says Adam Symansky, NFB producer of Mohawk Girl and Club Native. "It isn't based on the past so much ason native communities taking responsibility and control of their future. That is the challenge she is putting out in her films."Image Copyright and Credit: Tracey Deer and EMA Films.F2F Music and Image Copyright: David Peck and Face2Face. Used with permission.For more information about David Peck's podcasting, writing and public speaking please visit his site here.With thanks to Josh Snethlage and Mixed Media Sound. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It's important to know what's going on with our lives in the "cloud".On this episode we dive into a short interactive documentary called 'Discriminator' that looks at what is ACTUALLY happening with so many of those pictures that we all harmlessly share online multiple times a day, every day.Director Brett Gaylor has made a truly interactive documentary that genuinely makes you think about the sharing we do on the internet.We talked about the inspiration for the film, the importance for us all to up our knowledge during the internet age and so very much more...

Brett Gaylor and Face2Face host David Peck talk about his new film The Internet of Everything, advertising and activism, the digital arms race, the third industrial revolution and learning how to respond to a crisis.Watch the film on CBC Gem now.Synopsis:The Internet is invading all aspects of our lives. No longer confined to computers or phones, the Internet is now in refrigerators, and toilets, and is the infrastructure of our cities. The future will either be a surveillance nightmare or an eco-utopia, the outcome determined by start-ups in Silicon Valley and Shenzhen. The Internet of Everything directed by award-winning filmmaker Brett Gaylor is a documentary that examines the hype and hubris hurtling towards the next frontier in the Internet’s evolution. Using the never-ending list of devices we are told we want, the film provides a landscape for a broader discussion about whether the Internet has indeed been a democratizing force or, instead, a fertile ground for the formation of new empires.Kristina is developing a device that transmits fertility data to the cloud from inside a woman’s private parts; Nellie Bowles, a journalist for the New York Times, introduces a survivor of domestic abuse who was terrorized by her partner’s “smart home.” China’s smart city vision reward citizens for behaviour conforming to social norms, as well as Alphabet’s vision for a corporate neighbourhood built “from the Internet up.” In Barcelona, we grasp a new potential for the Internet to allow for the copying of physical goods, turning the material world of atoms into digital bits that can be transmitted at zero cost anywhere on earth. Best-selling author and economist Jeremy Rifkin proposes that these digital disruptions are the signifier of an industrial revolution, and that the Internet is as significant a development as railroads and the internal combustion engine.“I’m a reformed techno-utopian who works in the tech industry and has spent a decade critiquing it,” says director Gaylor. “My previous documentaries, Rip! A Remix Manifesto and Do Not Track have mapped the public’s relationship with the Internet, first with fascination and then obsession, then growing discomfort around the abuse of our private information, and now a sense of confusion and dread.“If the pace of change and lack of agency is confusing for a techie like me,” continues Gaylor, “everyone else is probably feeling bewildered, too. But now, with the connecting of the physical world into the “Internet of Things”, the stakes have been raised - it’s no longer just the abstractions of cyberspace that are spinning out of control, but instead our homes, our bodies and our cities that are being transformed.”The Internet of Everything is a fast, funny and enlightening take on the bewildering change the Internet has wrought. It embraces the “techlash” while reflecting on the big picture of a world where we are all connected.About Brett:Brett’s brain is split between making technology and documentaries. For 10 years, he was part of the Mozilla Foundation’s senior management team. During this time he also produced media work documenting the Internet’s slide from democratic wonderland to dystopic surveillance market.Do Not Track, his 6-part interactive documentary about privacy and the web economy, was the recipient of the International Documentary Association award for best nonfiction series, the Prix Gemaux for Best Interactive Series, the International Association of Broadcasters Online Factual Prize, the Deutscher Prize for online communications, the 2015 Sheffield Documentary Festival jury commendation, and the 2016 Peabody award.OK, Google animated a year of his son Rowan’s accidental voice searches and received the 2019 Webby Award. His 2008 feature Rip! A Remix Manifesto was the recipient of audience choice prizes at festivals from Amsterdam to South Africa, broadcast in 20 countries, and seen by millions of people worldwide on Netflix, Hulu and The Pirate Bay.Image Copyright: Brett Gaylor and Eye Steel Films. Used with permission.F2F Music and Image Copyright: David Peck and Face2Face. Used with permission.For more information about David Peck’s podcasting, writing and public speaking please visit his site here.With thanks to Josh Snethlage and Mixed Media Sound. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Brett Gaylor joins Chris and Daniel to chat about the recently announced winners of Mozilla’s creative media awards, which focuses on exposing the impact of AI on society. These winners include a film that responds to the audience (via AI recognized emotions) and an interesting chatbot called Wanda.

Brett Gaylor joins Chris and Daniel to chat about the recently announced winners of Mozilla’s creative media awards, which focuses on exposing the impact of AI on society. These winners include a film that responds to the audience (via AI recognized emotions) and an interesting chatbot called Wanda.

Today’s teens are the first humans who have spent their entire lives online. Join Veronica Belmont and Manoush Zomorodi as they explore what kids are facing on the interwebs, how they’re using social media for good, how they’re handling cyberbullying, and how parents can keep up. Parkland, Florida’s Cameron Kasky discusses how he uses social media as a platform for activism; tech journalist Alexandra Samuel talks about Lil Tay and and the the role parents can play as they help their children navigate the internet; and Common Sense Media's Sierra Filucci gives us an exclusive look at data from a new study about technology's impact on our youth. IRL is an original podcast from Mozilla. For more on the series go to irlpodcast.org. Manoush Zomorodi is the co-host of ZigZag, a podcast about changing the course of capitalism, journalism, and women’s lives. She's also the author of Bored an Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self. Cameron Kasky is a co-founder of March For Our Lives. Use your vote. If you live in the U.S., here are are some resources to help you register. Jeff Kasky is the President of Families vs. Assault Rifles, a political action committee founded by parents of Parkland, Florida Douglas High students working to restrict access to assault rifles. For a detailed summary of Common Sense Media’s findings on technology and teens, check out this summary of their Social Media, Social Life study. Also, check out this commentary from Common Sense about supporting research on tech's impact on the health and well-being of kids. There are a number of Firefox extensions that can help parents guide their children's internet experiences, such as Parental Control: Family Friendly Filter, which blocks certain websites deemed inappropriate for kids. You can find this extension and more in our Parental Controls collection. Finally, here’s a short film by Darren Pasemko and Mozilla’s Brett Gaylor demonstrating just how much technology has come into family life. Leave a rating or review in Apple Podcasts so we know what you think.

In this episode, the newest member of the Leading Lines team, Melissa Mallon, brings us an interview about teaching critical media literacy. The interview features Natasha Casey, a communications professor at Blackburn College in Illinois, and Spencer Brayton, library manager at Waubonsee Community College, also in Illinois. While Brayton was at Blackburn College, he and Casey collaborated to bring their respective fields—information literacy and media literacy—together, developing and team teaching a course on media and information literacy. The course took at a critical look at the topics, meaning that there was a particular focus to issues of power and control in digital media. Links: •Natasha Casey’s blog, No Silos, http://www.natashacasey.com/mil-blog •Spencer Brayton’s blog, Converging Spaces, https://spencerbrayton.wordpress.com/ •@NatashaCaseyIRL, http://twitter.com/NatashaCaseyIRL •@brayton_spencer, http://twitter.com/brayton_spencer •RiP!: A Remix Manifesto, the 2008 open-source documentary directed by Brett Gaylor and featuring the DJ Gregg Gillis, better known as Girl Talk, https://vimeo.com/8040182 •Melissa Mallon’s new book, The Pivotal Role of Academic Librarians in Digital Learning, https://www.abc-clio.com/LibrariesUnlimited/product.aspx?pc=A5258P

Samuel Fry speaks to Documentarian Brett Gaylor and Media-Maker Hằng Do Thi Duc about how they use art to explore the issues surrounding Data Privacy. Samuel speaks to Brett Gaylor about his process when creating the documentaries 'RiP!: A Remix Manifesto' and 'Do Not Track'. He then speaks to Hang Do Thi Duc about her project called "Data Selfie" which shows how Facebook can track your activity on their website.

This week, the Rocket trio talk Apple rumors and the PlayStation VR before being joined by Brett Gaylor from Mozilla to talk about encryption.

We've all known for many years that the websites we use keep track of who we are and what we are doing. Lately though, it seems like things have gotten out of control. Surveillance has gotten quite sophisticated and intrusive, and we've become more aware of what exactly we are giving up in exchange for being online. Is this a problem? How bad is it? What can we do?

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a highly secretive trade agreement being negotiated between the US and eleven Pacific Rim countries, including Australia. US President Barack Obama is keen to finalise the deal after obtaining a fast-track authority from the United States Congress. A number of chapters will affect the creative industries and internet freedom including the intellectual property chapter, the investment chapter, and the electronic commerce chapter. Legacy copyright industries have pushed for longer and stronger copyright protection throughout the Pacific Rim. There have been concerns about how the regime will affect creative artists like Brett Gaylor, the documentary film-maker of Rip! A Remix Manifesto. Controversy over the inclusion of an Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism in the TPP indicates copyright owners and Big IT could deploy investor clauses to challenge progressive law reforms such as the adoption of a defence of fair use and meaningful IT pricing reforms in Australia. Other concerns include the electronic commerce chapter of the TPP. Big IT companies like Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft are willing to support the TPP in return for a harmonisation of electronic commerce rules throughout the Pacific Rim. It could undermine consumer rights, privacy, network neutrality, and open source standards. If passed, the TPP will transform Australia's creative artists, cultural industries, and digital media.