Is there such a thing as online privacy? That is today’s question.
In class, we decided that no, there was no such thing as online privacy which seems to be about right.
As teenagers our lives are constantly being thrown onto the internet. We post where we are at all the time on Twitter, Facebook, and Myspace. We blog about every event of our lives, share pictures of our family and friends on the web, and chat with complete strangers if we feel like it.
Online privacy is not always something that is in the forefront of our brains considering how much of our lives we allow the world to see.
In an article by the New York Times, author Steve Lore talks about how online privacy has vanished.
As we discussed in class, Lore re-covered the issue of computers storing cookies and all of the information about what sites we visit to better figure out what our interests are, invading our privacy.
Yes, there are privacy settings when sharing personal information about our lives on sites such as Facebook and Myspace, but when it comes down to it the privacy settings are a little defense against the vast world of the internet.
Jon Kleinberg, a professor of computer science at Cornell University who studies social networks said, “when you’re doing stuff online, you should behave as if you’re doing it in public -because increasingly, it is.”
Privacy expert Steve Rambam said during a public speaking session, ‘Privacy Is Dead – Get Over It’ that, “Online privacy doesn’t exist because we put every private thing online.”
The only way to protect ourselves and our privacy online is to limit what information about our lives we put online.
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