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Through an empirical, secondary analysis of 588 teens (ages 12 - 17) and one of their parents living in the United States, we present useful insights into how parental privacy concerns for their teens and different parental mediation strategies (direct intervention versus active mediation) influence teen privacy concerns and privacy risk-taking and risk-coping privacy behaviors in social media. Our results suggest that the use of direct intervention by itself may have a suppressive effect on teens, reducing their exposure to online risks but also their ability to engage with others online and to learn how to effectively cope with online risks. Therefore, it may be beneficial for parents to combine active mediation with direct intervention so that they can protect their teens from severe online risks while empowering teens to engage with others online and learn to make good online privacy choices.

The article identifies common archival issues (i.e., listing and cataloging) associated with archiving digitally created information, due to rapidly changing technologies used to create digital information. This makes it challenging to appropriately list and catalog the moral impacts created by the rapidly emerging technologies. The article (n.d.) states, "ever morphing nature of information technology is changing our ability to even fully understand moral values as they change. Lorenzo Magnani claims that acquiring knowledge of how that change confounds our ability to reason morally '…has become a duty in our technological world'" (section 1.1). The article alerts to impending moral and ethical dilemmas created by smart phone apps that will be soon be capable of streaming biometric data (e.g., vital signs, physical activity logs, caloric intake, etc.) and linking it with GPS tracking to identify geo-locators tied to fluctuations in biometric data via phone applications. The advantage of such technology can lead to promotion of more healthy lifestyles. However, streaming such sensitive biometric information (data) leads to privacy and ethical concerns that are not easily resolved. Other moral, ethical and privacy issues are created surreptitiously when browsing websites on the Internet. "Browser software records all manner of data about our visits to various websites which can, for example, make webpages load faster next time you visit them. Even the websites themselves use various means to record information when your computer has accessed them and they may leave bits of information on your computer which the site can use the next time you visit. Some websites are able to detect which other sites you have visited or which pages on the website you spend the most time on. If someone were following you around a library noting down this kind of information you might find it uncomfortable or hostile, but online this kind of behavior takes place behin

The article looks at how social media sites such as Facebook have changed the way teenagers view privacy. The authors argue that teenagers do care about privacy and have developed mechanisms that allow them to maintain their privacy while still participating in online environments. They also suggest that our understanding of online privacy should shift from an individual context to incorporate a "networked context".

A look at the history of Facebook regarding privacy concerns and user settings. Some very eye opening statistics regarding how many people have never modified their privacy settings as well as what Facebook has pushed through without permission and then had to readjust later after some pushback from consumers and governments.

This report out of NYS looks at a variety of issues regarding data privacy in NYS School districts. It looks at the number of violations, the cause of the violation, and advisement to districts of how to avoid these problems.

In this study, Meier, Schäwel, & Krämer (2020), examine the length of privacy policies found on social media platforms. Privacy policies give users the opportunity to inform themselves of the many ways their personal information may be used. Unfortunately, the lengthy and difficult-to-read are often skipped or unread by users. What if we were to shorten these policies? Would it make a difference? Meier, Schäwel, & Krämer determined that users that read a shorter policy did spend more time per word, trying to understand the ins and outs of the policy's text because it was shorter. Meier, Schäwel, & Krämer's findings showed that more users were engaged in the shorter policies. Policy length, as well as the inclusion of more user-friendly language will encourage users to be more inclined to understand situational privacy problems.

Koohang, Paliszkiewicz, & Goluchowski stress the importance of privacy and trust when using social media. Through their research model, social media privacy concerns, or SMPC were focused on. These SMPCs were collection, secondary usage, errors, improper access, control and awareness of trust and risk regarding users. They found that users with greater privacy concerns were less likely to trust social media platforms with their personal information. Users with higher privacy concerns also felt it more risky to disclose more personal information to the platform.

Did you see that study on privacy in the digital age? If you're wondering which one, there's a good reason for that. Every few months, a new study hits the press about how different generations relate to privacy and so far, the results have been all over the map.

A look into how school public pages, specifically Facebook, can violate student privacy and concerns/values of privacy for families.

How educational use of social media can violate student privacy

Reviews the standards, purpose, and objective for data privacy and security in New York State schools

Methods to improve data privacy culture in schools

Some useful tips not just for teenagers, but for any users of social media looking to protect their privacy and online. I particularly liked the tip on modeling proper social media use for teens. The district I am in has blocked all social media sites (even Pinterest!) and so the students use VPNs to get around the blocks instead of allowing teachers and others to realistically demonstrate how to navigate social media sites in a healthy way it becomes something that is forbidden to be on.

Computer & Internet Lawyer journal article showing some of the complexities in court cases regarding intended audiences and privacy concerns. This case in particular was from a Myspace posting that was reported to police that involved a threat against a school, but was prosecuted using disorderly conduct charges.

This article examines the ways people use social media to project themselves to world and in many way, recreate themselves as they wish they could be. Also examined is the blurring between public and private lives and how the very definition of privacy has been changed.