Privacy Week...
Interesting video, even though the American context with both the 4th Amendment and the Patriot Act in play is different to Australian context.
Choose Privacy Week Video from 20K Films on Vimeo.
Considering I do blog and have put a fair chunk of my life online it certainly had an impact on the way I think about that. Still not a F@cebo0k member, though if I was it might have allowed me to keep in touch with some folks that I lost contact with too. Pros and cons between being a hermit and being totally open.
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It's actually a little bit scary, the amount of information one can gather about you via the net. I was also thinking about that the other day and I wonder how difficult it would be to remove your fingerprint from the net should you want to...?
I agree. The social networking sites vacuum up a huge amount of personal information and for what purpose? Marketing? Surveillance? Social control? Why do they need it and why do they need you to enter in 'accurate' information about yourself?
Social networking type sites also have the capacity to do damage to people's lives. A friend lost one job because of a remark her sister wrote on her F@cebo0k wall. I've also written things online that I've later regretted.
Also not sure if it is possible for people who have an online fingerprint to remove it? I think it'd be very difficult.
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