Do Security and Privacy Really Exist?

     In terms of my topic, I feel that security and privacy exist in the theatre. In my experience so far in college, I have found that security and privacy are pretty important. In addition, I have looked at professional theatre companies privacy and security rights. Mostly, it has to deal with the people coming to see the performances and how the box office will not share their information or ask for major personal information. In addition, the audience members cannot tape performances or take photographs (and that is more than just for not blinding the actors). It's because, normally, a theater will hire someone to take photos or videotape a show so that they can put the show into their archives and normally that information is available online to the public or displayed inside the building.
    Speaking from personal experience (and it's not that much so far), we have a lot of security in regards to keys and gaining access to rooms and other supplies in the building. Theatre does use a lot of technology nowadays and that technology is usually very expensive (i.e. sound boards, genies, projectors, etc.) How it kind of works (from how I have observed it) is that if you work for a shop or in the building you can have access to certain keys and you get a certain code where the lock-box will recognize who you are. Each key is numbered (for specific rooms) and it recognizes when the key has been removed or replaced and who has the key if it is removed from the slot. Clearly, technology is key in regards to the issue of security because you don't want anyone to be able to have access to these rooms. Even in high school only the advisor for our club could have keys to the auditorium where we had meetings and rehearsed because it was a school building; and because keys can fall into the wrong hands. Obviously, at professional theaters there is a level of security such as swipe cards, codes, or keys that are only given to certain people because security is important and vital.
    The other issue is privacy of performances and not having anyone videotape or take photographs that isn't asked to do that for the theater. Theaters keep an archives of previous performances and that usually includes who was in the show, dates of the show, and photos and/or performances. Obviously, audience members aren't allowed and shouldn't be taking photos or videos of the performance because it's distracting to the cast members but because it is a privacy thing. Yes, it is a publicized event but at the same time it's respect for the theater. And looking at security/privacy policies on professional theater websites it talks about, mostly in regards, to customers buying their tickets from box offices and how much personal information will be needed/shared with them. For example, on this website it gave you a detailed list of questions and answers for certain issues such as security. “Security. We have security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. These security measures include a firewall to prevent unauthorized access to our systems and maintenance of registration information in a separate database.” It’s just comforting to a customer to know that security measures such as this are in place on websites; even if you’re just ordering some tickets for a show.

To see this website’s information here is the link:

http://www.5thavenue.org/about/legal.aspx