{"id":93,"date":"2008-01-04T13:21:09","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T18:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jedbrubaker.com\/index.php\/2008\/01\/04\/privacy-on-the-social-web\/"},"modified":"2008-01-04T13:23:12","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T18:23:12","slug":"privacy-on-the-social-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/04\/privacy-on-the-social-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Privacy on the Social Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=17703693\" title=\"NPR: Expectations of Privacy in the Information Age\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog\/npr.gif\" alt=\"NPR: Expectations of Privacy in the Information Age\" title=\"NPR: Expectations of Privacy in the Information Age\" style=\"border: 0px none ; padding: 5px 15px 0px 0px\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" height=\"42\" width=\"125\" \/><\/a>Fred Stutzman on his blog <a href=\"http:\/\/chimprawk.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/news-round-up.html\" title=\"Unit Structures\" target=\"_blank\">Unit Structures<\/a> mentioned an NPR segment on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=17703693\" title=\"NPR: Expectations of Privacy in the Information Age\">privacy issues online<\/a> from the most recent <em>Weekend Edition<\/em>.  Fred&#8217;s humorous prediction of paranoia in listeners is unfortunately not far off. While scholars James Rule and Kathryn Montgomery were both quick to point out that different generations have different notions of privacy, I am generally frustrated that we do not discuss the value of privacy in relative terms.<\/p>\n<p>I am split on this issue. I find it disappointing to hear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soc.american.edu\/content.cfm?id=291\" title=\"Dr. Montgomery -- Profile\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Montgomery<\/a> (director of American University&#8217;s Center&#8217;s Youth, Media and Democracy project) answer these difference by suggesting that &#8220;we need to help them understand what privacy is and to make more conscious decisions about what they share.&#8221; <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Having just logged off Facebook, however, I am reminded of something <a href=\"http:\/\/explore.georgetown.edu\/people\/tinkcomm\/?PageTemplateID=137\" title=\"Dr. Tinkcom -- Profile\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Tinkcom<\/a> said on the final day of class last semester (paraphrased here, of course):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am not sure I understand people&#8217;s willingness to post their information on Facebook. It seems like we spend all this time talking about the ways in which we need to avoid identity theft, and then we log online and post all the information right there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dr. Rule, on the other hand, advocated policy moves that acknowledge the wide disclosure of information. He proposes policy to let individuals own information relevant to their identity, effectively balancing out the equation between consumers and business.<\/p>\n<p>This approach is much broader (and more productive), but I am not sure it handles Dr. Tinkcom&#8217;s concerns. If we are concerned about identity theft and fraud, however, companies like Visa and American Express are a couple steps ahead. Both are offering to take responsibility for fraud on accounts in order to attract customers. Of course these moves are trying to commodify consumer&#8217;s fears of identity fraud, but it will be interesting to see how many other companies follow suite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Stutzman on his blog Unit Structures mentioned an NPR segment on privacy issues online from the most recent Weekend Edition. Fred&#8217;s humorous prediction of paranoia in listeners is unfortunately not far off. While scholars James Rule and Kathryn Montgomery were both quick to point out that different generations have different notions of privacy, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJP4m-1v","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}