When you google Angel Nelson you see exactly what I want you to see: links to my website, my graphic design portfolio site on coroflot.com and my LinkedIn. Well when I say you see exactly what I want you to see, that’s only halfway true because my website isn’t done, my portfolio contains old work, who knows what is on my LinkedIn. At the very least, when you google me you can find me pretty easily. My initial online presence isn’t extremely embarrassing or damaging. Before coming back to school, I really made an effort to clean up my online presence.
What reasonable expectation do I have for privacy on the web? I have little to no expectation of privacy. I don’t expect my pictures to be used in advertisements, but it wouldn’t surprise me if they were. That’s why I don’t upload many pictures of myself online. A month ago I had a privacy-related scare. I was playing Mafia Wars on facebook and noticed that a player was using my photo. I saw my face in the game and it scared me. I tracked down the player, which was kind of hard to do, and realized that it was most likely just a glitch on my end.
At the end of the day, my profile picture being stolen and used in a game isn’t that serious, but what if my digital design work is stolen? And what if it actually got a person a job? I would be mad if the job was better than the job I had lol. But seriously, anyone in the world could use my work as his or her own and I would never know. As digital designers, we need to learn what is legal, what's illegal, and how to protect ourselves. Digital work is easily stolen and manipulated everyday.
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