paul schreiber

While in Australia and New Zealand, I shot a ton of photos.

Normally, my photos sit on a hard drive and no one sees them. I wanted to make sure that didn’t happen this time.

First, I grouped the photos in to folders in the Finder. Then, I created a new project in Aperture and imported all of the folders as albums. Then, I went through each folder and rated the photos. If a photo was 4 or 5 stars, I deemed it good enough for flickr.

I wrote the following AppleScript to find the albums, iterate through them, and export JPEGs of all the photos I had starred.

property basePath : “harddrive:Users:me:some_photos:”

with timeout of 600 seconds
  tell application “Aperture”
    set myProject to get project “some_project”
    set myAlbums to every album of myProject whose name starts with “NZ”
    set albumCount to count items in myAlbums
    –set myAlbums to items 16 through albumCount of myAlbums
   
    repeat with currentAlbum in myAlbums
      set folderName to name of currentAlbum & ” selects”
     
      set imageList to (every image version in currentAlbum whose main rating is greater than 3)
     
      try
        tell application “Finder” to make new folder at basePath with properties {name:folderName}
      end try
     
      export imageList to basePath & folderName using export setting “JPEG – 50% of Original Size”
    end repeat
  end tell
end timeout

The latest CDT Policy Post discusses the importance Privacy by Design. They extensively reference Anne Cavoukian (Ontario’s kickass Privacy Commissioner and author of Who Knows).

The seven principles of Privacy by Design are:

• Proactive, not Reactive; Preventative, not Remedial
• Privacy as the Default
• Privacy Embedded into Design
• Full Functionality – Positive-Sum, not Zero-Sum
• End-to-End Lifecycle Protection
• Visibility and Transparency
• Respect for User Privacy

Any system you build should take these in to account.