How Privacy Vanishes Online, a Bit at a Time - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Yet people often dole out all kinds of personal information on the Internet that allows such identifying data to be deduced. Services like Facebook, Twitter and Flickr are oceans of personal minutiae — birthday greetings sent and received, school and work gossip, photos of family vacations, and movies watched.
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In social networks, people can increase their defenses against identification by adopting tight privacy controls on information in personal profiles.
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Yet an individual’s actions, researchers say, are rarely enough to protect privacy in the interconnected world of the Internet.
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