Loss of Privacy:
Loss of privacy
refers to the ease that governments and companies have to monitor people via
the Internet.
According to
“Exposed: The erosion of privacy in the Internet era,” an article in Harvard
Magazine, “technology has forced people to rethink
the public/private distinction.” This is true in terms of both social
media and blogs, because everything you do on the Internet leaves a record that
cannot be deleted.
According to the
article “Narcissism on Facebook: Self-promotional and anti-social behavior,”
“Facebook is one of the most popular websites in the world with over 600
million users.”
According to
Latanya Sweeney, A.L.B., a visiting computer science, technology, and policy
professor quoted in the article from Harvard Magazine, “the
main reason privacy is a growing problem is that disk storage is so
cheap…people can collect data and never throw anything away.”
Since
they are surprisingly easy to access and you are unable to permanently delete
things you post (on both social media like Facebook and Twitter, and blogs like
Pinterest and Tumblr), they can pose a very real threat to being accepted to
college, graduate school, and being hired for internships or real jobs.
The
overall invasion of privacy is debatable, due to the balance of attempts to
make online profiles private, vs. the ability of the government to access these
sites.
Photo Sources:
Information
sources:
Carpenter,
Christopher, J. "Narcissism on Facebook: Self-
promotional
and anti-social behavior." Personality and Individual Differences.
52. (2012): 482-486. Web. 24 Feb. 2013.
<http://www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/JOURNALS/P111209C.pdf>.
Shaw, Jonathan.
"Exposed: The erosion of privacy in the Internet
era."
Harvard Magazine. 09 2009: 1-5. Web. 24 Feb. 2013. <http://harvardmagazine.com/2009/09/privacy-erosion-in-internet-era>.
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