In the physical realm we can deliberately control which portions our bodies are exposed to the world by covering it with clothing. In the digital realm, we have much less control of what personal aspects we share with the services that connect us. In the digital realm we are naked and vulnerable.
When Max Kelly, the chief security officer for Facebook, left the company in 2010, he did not go to Google or Twitter. Instead the man who was responsible for protecting the personal information of Facebook’s more than one billion users from outside attacks went to work for another institution that analyzes large pools of data: the N.S.A..
“I felt like digitally I was already being exposed, and physically, I just felt like that was a apart of the statement,” Chen says. “While wearing it, just the amount of activity that happened made me realize how much it was showing off.”
While social media revolutionizes how the world responds to political and social events, it may be a double-edged sword. Researchers warned that the tendency to fixate on a small number of opinions encourages the proliferation of rumors, misinformation, and political polarization.
The General Data Protection Regulation was put forward by the European Commission on 25 January 2012. This campaign is designed to make sure that the Regulation gives us stronger privacy rights.
If online oversharing is a public health problem, then the state’s decision to harness it for its own purposes means that huge, powerful forces within government will come to depend on it.
Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger, the co-editor of Boing Boing and the author of the novels LITTLE BROTHER. HOMELAND and RAPTURE OF THE NERDS.
Several US Government agencies, including the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and non-profit organizations have joined in an effort to provide consumers useful, easy-to-understand information on Internet safety.
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