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Keith Hamon

"The Future of Privacy: How Privacy Norms Can Inform Regulation" - 1 views

  • privacy in an era of social media is complicated. It’s not simply about individual data.  It's about managing visibility, negotiating networks, and facing an ever-increasing flow of information.
    • Keith Hamon
       
      Social networks have highlighted the complexity of privacy, which is no longer a personal, individual issue (an issue of protecting personal data); rather, privacy is now an issue of the appropriate, value-added interplay between an individual and her environment. I think privacy has always been the negotiation of this interplay, but social networks have made it obvious.
  • Privacy is fundamentally about both context and networks.
  • People may not like having their privacy violated or being in situations where they're being surveilled, but they will always choose social status and community over privacy.  They would rather be vulnerable to more people and deal with institutions than to feel disconnected from their peers and loved ones.
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  • Participation in Facebook is not as much of an individual choice as people think.  Even if you opt out, people can still write about you, can still create groups about you, can still reference you in updates.  You become part of the network regardless of your personal choices.
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    I'm completely baffled by the persistent assumption that social norms around privacy have radically changed because of social media. This rhetoric is pervasive and is often used to justify privacy invasions.  There is little doubt that the Internet is restructuring social interactions, but there is no radical shift in social norms because of social media.  Teenagers care _deeply_ about privacy.  But they also want to participate in public life and they're trying to find ways to have both.  Privacy is far from dead but it is definitely in a state of flux.
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