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Privacy is not about control over data nor is it a property of data.  It's about a collective understanding of a social situation's boundaries and knowing how to operate within them.  In other words, it’s about having control over a situation. It's about understanding the audience and knowing how far information will flow.  It’s about trusting the people, the situating, and the context.  People seek privacy so that they can make themselves vulnerable in order to gain something: personal support, knowledge, friendship, etc.

1) Security Through Obscurity Is a Reasonable Strategy 2) Not All Publicly Accessible Data is Meant to be Publicized 3) People Who Share PII Aren’t Rejecting Privacy 4) Aggregating and Distributing Data Out of Context is a Privacy Violation 5) Privacy is Not Access Control

Social norms can and are changing, but that doesn't mean that privacy has been thrown out the door. People care deeply about privacy, care deeply about maintaining context.  But they also care about publicity, or the right to walk out in public and be seen. 

Watch Full Program 01 hr 12 min 07 sec Add to Profile 01. Introduction 04 min 40 sec Add to Profile 02. Fear of Search Results Exposed 07 min 47 sec Add to Profile 03. Privacy in Relation to Culture and Preferences 04 min 12 sec Add to Profile 04. Geo Targeting 06 min 15 sec Add to Profile 05. Opting Out 04 min 18 sec Add to Profile 06. Consent and Self-Regulation 05 min 11 sec Add to Profile 07. Google's Approach to Self-Regulation 05 min 20 sec Add to Profile 08. Technological Barriers to Regulation 08 min 29 sec Add to Profile 09. Ad Preferences / Transparency 04 min 05 sec Add to Profile 10. Difficulty of Multiple Platforms 06 min 39 sec Add to Profile 11. Solutions: Limitations of Data Retention 10 min 57 sec Add to Profile 12. <a clas

The scope of this literature review is to map out what is currently understood about the intersections of youth, reputation, and privacy online, focusing on youth attitudes and practices. We summarize both key empirical studies from quantitative and qualitative perspectives and the legal issues involved in regulating privacy and reputation. This project includes studies of children, teenagers, and younger college students. For the purposes of this document, we use “teenagers” or “adolescents” to refer to young people ages 13-19; children are considered to be 0-12 years old. However, due to a lack of large-scale empirical research on this topic, and the prevalence of empirical studies on college students, we selectively included studies that discussed age or included age as a variable. Due to language issues, the majority of this literature covers the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, and Canada.

In other words, if users do wind up sharing far more than they intended to, Facebook can’t do much to repair the damage. Will this have a major impact on Facebook’s success? Probably not. But people may no longer perceive it as a private site, which is what made it popular in the first place.

Währenddessen scheint Facebook bereits auf die aufflammende Kritik reagiert zu haben: Die umstrittene Funktion, mit der Facebook bisher drei ausgewählte Partnerseiten vorab und ohne vorherige Rückfrage beim Nutzer mit einigen personenbezogenen Profilinformationen versorgen will, ist für Anwender in einigen europäischen Ländern (u.a. in Deutschland) in den Privatsphären-Einstellungen nun&nbsp;als Standard deaktiviert – laut bisheriger Kommunikation von Facebook und nach Aussage von US-Anwendern sollte das Feature eigentlich automatisch aktiviert werden. Am besten wäre, ihr schaut selbst einmal nach.

As 2009 draws to a close, the Web's attention turns to the year ahead. What can we expect of the online realm in 2010? While Web innovation is unpredictable, some clear trends are becoming apparent. Expect the following 10 themes to define the Web next year:

Real-time ramps up

Location, location, location

Augmented reality