Are you tracking me?
The belief that the steady erosion of our online privacy is the inevitable by-product of digital progress is probably one of the biggest obstacles to protecting our privacy. It undermines efforts to educate end users about the perils of privacy erosion by suggesting that there is little anyone, including lawmakers, can actually do to stop it. In actual fact, privacy erosion is neither inevitable nor irreversible (at least not entirely).
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Here's To You Facebook Users!
To all those Facebook users out there (especially women who drive 62% of activity on the site) who freely share links, stream music, read the news, play virtual games, click on Facebook’s “like” buttons, express political views, meticulously update your relationship status, upload family pictures and other deeply personal information about yourselves, congratulations! You are about to collectively make Facebook, its founder Mark Zuckerberg, his early investors and key executives of his company very wealthy. Or, more accurately, you're about to make them wealthier still.
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Posted on Wednesday, February 08, 2012 at 08:00 in Current Affairs, Social Commentary, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
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